Who Do You Call Your Friend?

Who do you call your friend?
How well do you know your friend?
Who is your friend if I may ask.

A few days ago,I met a pretty young woman. Initially, she was so withdrawn and quiet. She sat at another table at the pub whilst I was the only girl who sat with the guys having a drink and talking.
I could not tell why she didn't smile or sit with us and since I learned to stop judging people, it made it easier for me to relate to her when the guys finally coerced her to sit with us.

She had  returned from peacekeeping    the previous day and had gone home to her family unannounced.  She had decided to surprise  them only to find her sister in bed with her boyfriend.
When I heard her story, I felt so bad and did not know what to say to her. Her own blood sister had betrayed her. I began to wonder, how well did she know her so called boyfriend? How well did she know her sister though human beings are unpredictable.

Sometimes you just aren't sure of people because there are too many fake people in the world. Sometimes you can't tell the extent to which people would go for you when they claim to be your friend. 

Why would your sister be attracted to your boyfriend and no other boy on planet earth? What happened to loyalty?  Why would your boyfriend choose to cheat on you with your sister. What happened to the other girls? What happened to loyalty?   Your sister should be your first friend or?

Friends do not betray each other. Friends are there when the acquaintances come and leave. Friends laugh and cry with you or lend you a shoulder to cry on. Friends know your flaws yet stick by you no matter what. Your friend's significant other is a 'no go zone' for you. You have no business trying to do him or her a favour by pointing out your friend's flaws to them. Hell no. Get busy with your life, leave them to live theirs. Friends forgive easily and do not seek the least opportunity to pay back whoever hurt them. Friendship says loyalty even when your friend cannot see you. Friendship has rules,  learn them before you decide to start one.

Do people really understand what friendship means? Don't start something you cannot finish. Stop hurting others simply because you do not understand what that word entails.  No wonder these days people end up putting others through that test of loyalty.  Too many fake people parading themselves as friends of others.

Who do you call your friend? How well do you know your friend?  Do you need to put them through a test to prove their spot in your life?  Are they loyal to you, are you loyal to them?  Do you really know them?