Iba ang kakilala sa kaibigan

Unforgettable line of a fellow blogger about shedding friends: Shedding polishes and sorts your relationships with people. You shed friends who are insincere, phony, difficult, annoying, treats you bad, or uses you. Shedding is human nature's way of picking out TRUE friends from a pile of whom you call "friends."

So true.

Sometime last May, I decided to shed out a friend and I feel better now knowing that she is no longer a part of my circle.

She is a rich kid but she is also self-conceited, proud and boastful. One concrete proof of my description of her was her scratched car. She used to bring her SUV to work pero dahil sa sobrang yabang nya in dealing with people at work, she found her car one day displaying two long, deep scratches, one in the front bumper, the other on the driver’s side door. She’s also had a number of verbal and written arguments with several employees of the company. To think na to date, she’s only been with us for 8 months.

Just the other night she met an accident. Wala naman syang injury pero the company car was wrecked. Galing sa gimik, pinilit umuwi kahit na dis-oras ng gabi. Hayun, binangga nya yung mga barriers dun sa SLEX. She called her boyfriend to help her, she called her friends to tell them what happened but she never called home. Why, apparently, pag nalaman ng tatay nya yung nangyari, pagreresignin sya sa trabaho. Weird.

I’ve never met her father (Thank God for little mercies...) pero ganun ang press release nya tungkol sa father nya. High and mighty. She is what, 33 years old pero ni hindi sya madalaw ng bf nya sa bahay nila kasi ayaw ng tatay nya dun sa guy. Why did she go home that night kahit na antok na antok na siya at nakainom pa? Dahil sa tatay nya. Hindi pwedeng hindi sya uuwi kasi her tatay will go ballistics if he finds out na hindi sya umuwi. So kahit na anong pigil sa kanya ng mga kasama nya that night, she still opted to drive ~60 kilometers just to get home. Ang bait. Pero aksidente ang naging kapalit. Kawawa naman.

Hindi naman ako galit sa kanya. Nagtampo lang ako nung una. So I kept my distance for a while. But then later I realized nawala na rin pala ang amor ko sa kanya so I finally decided to shed her out. I still see her around. I greet her plainly whenever I see her pero syempre, minus the usual happy rapport.