Fake Friends And Real Friends

How well do you know your friends, and how well can you tell real and fake friends apart in your life? Truth be told, your ultimate security and joy lie in knowing which friends are “friends indeed” and which ones are “fair-weather friends.” If you have been struggling to differentiate real and fake friends in your life, this piece will serve as the ultimate guide you need to tell friends apart from today onward…

A real friend always inspires the confidence of a blood brother in you. He feels like family. You see him as “a brother from another mother.” You don’t get this feeling with a fake friend; you see him as an outsider or an acquaintance at best. A real friend acts, thinks, and carries on as an original member of your family tree – and relatives nearly see him as such, but a fake friend will remain an ordinary friend of yours to family members. 

Real friends tend to stick around when you are passing through difficult situations in life, but you have to search around for fake friends before seeing them at a time like this. You don’t search for true friends when you need them – they are always around you, but fake friends are like pop-up nuisances. Meanwhile, true friends will always alert you to approaching difficulties before they emerge because they are always watching out for you, whereas fake friends just plod on with you until it is too late.

Real friends inspire you. They fuel you with energy. They hold you up when you are down. They have the energy and strength you don’t seem to have. They have the outlook and positivism you may be lacking. They are solutions, and never problems. Fake friends are never a solution or know a solution because they are part of your initial problems. Real friends nudge you toward success while fake friends nudge you toward wastefulness.

Something in you – your spirit, the innate part of you, the real person in you appreciates favours from real friends, but not from fake friends. Fake friends might go to a great length to meet your needs, but something in you still doesn’t appreciate them for the favours, while you tend to value real friends even when they have done nothing of great value. You can’t explain this, but your spirit-man tends to value favours from true friends than from fake friends – and this is something you have to look into...

Your real friends are aware you admire someone in your office even though you’re married – yet keep the secret between themselves and even joke about it. Your fake friends will tell others behind your back. Your true friends know you have a dorky side to your personality, and yet love you for it, but a fake friend will broadcast your jerky side before you knew you even had it.

You know what toxicity means, right? Yeah, fake friends are always toxic when you screw up with them. But real friends accept you for who you are, and you are never afraid of screwing up before them. True friends laugh and forgive you when you make mistakes with them, but an error can cost a friendship with a fake friend. Real friends don’t refer to past mistakes you’ve made, but fake friends will always remind you of how bad you have been in your past and hold it against you when it benefits them...

That is clear enough, isn’t it? Real friends have got your back covered, but fake friends get it exposed. You always know where you’re going with real friends, but you are never sure with fake friends. You are not afraid of slipping up with real friends because you know they cover up for you, but you fear for fake friends because you are aware they can blow up your errors. Real friends will make you look like a hero, but you are always the culprit with fake friends.

You can predict real friends because you understand them very well, but you can never tell with fake friends. You understand how the minds of your real friends work, but you can never tell what a fake friend is thinking or how he or she might act out. You’re never sure with fake friends because they are not stable, but you can sleep with two eyes shut because you know you’re safe with a true friend around. You know what a real friend can do in all circumstances, but you can never know what a fake friend would do even in a given situation.

Real friends try and keep in touch with you because they see themselves as an extension of yourself, but fake friends will only pop-up when they need you and you serve a purpose. Fake friends will only reach out to you when they need your help or just to scoop up some gossip they could spread about how you are faring.

You can’t imagine your life without your real friends, but you always look forward to being rid of fake friends. You see true friends as an extension of yourself, but you see fake friends as necessary burdens. You feel inadequate and insecure when real friends are not around, but you experience alertness and become cautious when fake friends are there. You fully appreciate the fact that things might become a little difficult for you in the absence of your real friends, but you can’t find any added-value when fake friends are around you.