How Not To Choose Friends

Honesty, loyalty, compassion, and fairness are all examples of qualities people look for when choosing friends. The look for these qualities in order to sort 'real' friends from those considered acquaintances. But what is one deems another a 'friend', and their choice proves itself to have been faulty? People should never allow a friend to remain a friend if the are not trustworthy, dependable, or if they are manipulative. True friends are never, or should …

…'patsy', so to speak. All the aforementioned items have occurred in the writer's life, who lost a group of friends, having believed them to be close knit, and have petty differences become an impassable obstacle in their friendships. The whole experience has not been in vain, however, becuase the knowledge of bad friendships can be passed on, to ensure others do not run into the same problems in the friendships they forge with thier peers.