When I click on the word friendship, this is what I get on the synonyms’ tab: companionship, amity, acquaintance, comradeship, camaraderie, closeness, familiarity and alliance. But the true meaning of friendship is just the horrible truth, and the horrible opposite; it means hurt, it means pain, it means being ready to be put down by your own friend, and it could also mean being ready to be back stabbed, and in the most painful manner as well.

The main thing that causes most of the problems is the fact that one friend could ask for the other to give in to a sort of trust. However, that’s not true. This trust is in fact the key that opens up the Pandora’s Box of all friendships. It opens up to expectations that are to be broken, secrets to be exposed and all in all, pain of loneliness. Friends aren’t there to be forever. We all know the meaning and the phrase really well by now: everything comes to an end. 

There’s not one thing that is not immune to this ending disease. Even friendships are ended. A friend is someone whom a person gets really close to. A person learns to look up to his or her friend. A person trades secrets with a friend. He or she also learns to expect that the friend would be there for him or her. What happens when it all comes crashing down?

Everyone knows what happens, yet we are all prepared to accept that downfall, or do we? Some people would just crash and burn, withdraw themselves from ever making friends. Others, who don’t give a damn, just seriously don’t give a damn. To them, it is a person who enters into their lives and leaves. True there might be some sort of disappointment, but it can be shaken away easily too for them. Those who cannot shake it away are the crashers and burners. They can stay hurt forever, and never move on.