You Pick

We all make very deliberate decisions about the company in which we find ourselves. You do not spend time with another person unless you have specifically chosen to do so, and you do not continue to keep his or her company unless, somewhere in your mind, the benefit outweighs the risk. It is in this vein that I bid adieu to the time that I have chosen to spend with some acquaintences/neighbors. I have made a conscious decision to end the pain and hurt that has been caused by these people. The pain that has been inflicted upon me and my children as well. Because fair-weather friends who lie right to my face are, indeed, no friends at all. Friends who take painstaking effort in excluding my children from ice cream parties and other such events are, indeed, no friends of mine. I hate to have enemies, after all, I am a very friendly and social person, but it took me 34 years to learn that not everyone wants to be my friend. And that it OK. Because they would just use me (and my children) anyway.