JUST FRIENDS

We all have those friends among our circle of friends that we feel the most comfortable with, those friends closest to our hearts that we confide to our secrets and share our dreams with. They are not necessarily of the same sex, at times they are of the opposite sex. In some instances, they know us better than we know our selves. Those we feel most comfortable to hang out with and share with even more than we share with our partners/spouses.

It is rather hard nowadays to absolutely have a genuine opposite sex friend without overcoming challenges of the doubting public eye. Regardless of the genuine intentions of the two, the evolving social dynamics have corrupted the serene environment of having such frank relationships in place.

This issue has rather affected many people and brought about argument in their relationships. It is hard to actually believe that your Partner is “just friends” with someone of the opposite sex, and this is due to the fact that they are sometimes even closer than the two of you are.

This is because it is only human that at times such friendship may result to falling for the friend, or a sensual temptation to have one of those flirtatious or “no strings attached” type of sexual encounters. Not that it happens to everyone, but in our contemporary societies this happens more often than not to an extent this sort is coined as "friends with benefits". Consequently, it disrupts the whole idea of friendship. Because it is common psychology that emotions will be involved coupled with jealousy disrupting the existent friendship.

Moral of My Story: 
 Friendship is a valuable thing to treasure. And to uphold that value, as adults there are invisible lines that should never be crossed. It is only common sense that a certain distance should be observed when one’s “best friend” is committed to somebody else. Many people have been victimised or rather have borne consequences of their actions by not respecting this fact. One may be genuinely befriending a person but as human beings, being misjudged is common character.
Thus as we would like others to do to us, let us do unto others the like.