Are friends just supposed to be like a TV? You talk to them when it’s convenient for you and you can’t think of something else to do?
I’ve just realized all the people I thought were my friends only talk to me on their schedule, when they feel like it. I’m left on read for days, meetings are ignored, text message conversations just end abruptly until they get back from vacation…
Is this it? Is this what friendship is? Because I don’t want it. I don’t want to feel like I have people to rely on only to find out that I’m just a convenience for people.
No, I’ve had some pretty good friendships and real ones are not supposed to be like that at all.
Thinking of people as disposable like that, of just getting them out the drawer using them when convenient and then putting them back in the drawer again, is one of the many symptoms of the throwaway society we have developed and is not normal at all.
We treat objects like this, we treat the Earth like this, we treat life itself like this, so it’s unsurprising that we treat other people like this too, because it’s become so normalised, we grow up thinking that way, that we don’t even think of it as abnormal anymore.