Fool me twice, shame on me!
Most people can agree that friendship is all about find the yin to your yang and holding them close because everyone needs friends, right?
We look at three people who beg to differ and have washed their hands of all that concerns friendships. Find out why:
Sarah*, 24
“Inside your circle, there’s an inner circle that doesn’t include you.” That phrase didn’t make sense to me until my friends betrayed me. I used to have two besties and we all lived together. I was okay with all three of us not being equally close. But I was definitely not expecting one of them helping the other to run my boyfriend’s package. One minute I had a boyfriend, the next minute he was hers.
I blame myself for allowing a stupid friend triangle in the first place and my ex-boyfriend too, for allowing mud to touch my white. I ghosted all of them after that. Since then, nothing like friendship in the books for me. T for thanks.
Udoka*, 28
During my university days, I had this guy who I shared everything with. The wins, losses and every other thing going on with me, including my relationship issues. Unknown to me, this guy and my girlfriend had a friendship deeper than the “my guy’s bae” type.
Apparently, whenever I told him stuff, he would repeat it to my babe. She did the same thing too. Craziest part was she always went ballistic whenever I let it slip that I had confided in my friend about our quarrels. Lol. They were playing me like guitar strings,
Anyway, this girl used false cheating allegations to fully fly into my guy’s arms. Omo. Na mumu I be.
Teju* , 25
I am a filmmaker who does a lot of talent management. There was this guy I took on and he practically became a brother to me. He’d come to my house and stay for days. My friends and I helped with his content creation. In the days of plenty and scarcity, we were with him all the way–I even did free photo and video shoots for him.
In less than a year, his breakthrough came. He was in my house when one of the videos we had shot a day before, went viral. As we were all still feeling ecstatic, things were already going down in the background. Gigs started popping like toast, it was raining cash and we were suddenly not good enough for him.
Worst part is that I was the only one who didn’t see it coming. I was too busy being happy for him to notice what was going on. I guess you don’t really know who a man is until he has money.
#PeopleTalk is a submissions segment for everyday people to talk straight about the twists and turns of everyday life. This edition tells the story of three Nigerians who no longer rate the value of friendships.
