Stabbed in the Back

The way you make a friend or acquaintance should help you to realize just the type of friendship you will have with your new “friend”.  If you look closely you will get a feeling for what motivates him!

You never know where a friendship will lead, but one that starts with hostility toward a third person, is best avoided. What do I mean you may ask? You’re at a party with friends, or at a family gathering. There is always that one person, who seems to really annoy you, perhaps he is too loud, or very arrogant.  The night goes on, you encounter someone who shares your dislike of the annoying person. He goes on telling you, what you already know about that person; you nod your head in agreement. Without realizing you just opened the gate to a new “friendship”; or is it really a friendship?

Now you and your new “friend” talk about different things, and it does not occur to you until it happens to you. You look back over the year or two and notice how your conversations, always comes back to that mutually annoying person. In addition you go on to realize this new friend, had been planning all along, seeking some sort of revenge, or he wanted to see that person fail.

Your stabbed in the back because; it just happened to you. Why, because you didn’t see eye to eye on a topic. It is just like what happened to that annoying person, who you both dislike. That is what happened and you say to yourself:  “Oh my; I have, just been stabbed in the back. It is at that point that you see your “friend” for his true colors.

So always pay attention how a friendship start, was it a genuine development of a friendship, or did you subconsciously have a devious plan? Nicely put, did you become acquaintances for a common goal?