Agreement
often times creates ignorance and blindness
it’s in the face of opposition
that we see where we truly stand
the chill of objectivity
helps to form our truest conception of self
I noticed enemies have shown me more of myself
than friends.
Friendships are polite and optimistic
with temporary havens of security
and self indulgence.
But opposition
truly showed me things,
I once believed universally good of myself-
obviously good in virtue
of having friends and being friendly-
but was bad for this world
this world I speak of
may be prison
or life, period
it was friends that turned enemy
and enemies that revealed the treachery of friends
and my own foolishness
because at the end of the day
most people will self-serve and preserve
before sacrificing fully for a friend
I was the fool that would sacrifice all for a friend-
or the idea-
the enemies that had blossomed
showed me that I can’t just be agreeable,
having everyone like me
trying to make everyone happy
in order to be loved
because love doesn’t work that way
pliability is sticky
things given,
not worked for
will often foster ingratitude
and suspicion,
it’ll also advertise false allegiance
and manipulative
or thin loyalty
a friend doesn’t really know what it has in a friend
until discontent or trials arise
friends aren’t innately built to show you what you are lacking
in the unfavorable faces of strangers
and opposition
so they may keep you in a state of oblivion
just for vanity sake of being a “good friend”
-less contentious
opposition revels at the chance
to tell you a truth other than what you’ve been made to believe
friends can willingly lie to you
to keep you comfortable
and the friendship safe
as if believing,
disagreements mean a lack of friendship
friends almost got me killed in prison
enemies showed me more love
by their truth and revealed intentions
than the secreted selfish and held truth
I received from some friends
there’s a higher mutual respect now with those old foes
besides most of the friends we acquire
are more acquaintances than friendships
everyone doesn’t deserve to be called friends
even though we all need friends
we also all need opposition
prison made me reevaluate all roles
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