Bad Friends

How Friends Go Bad We’ve all lost friends throughout our lives and there are many reasons why we’ve decided to end our friendships with them. Over time people change, and the person you used to be friends with might not be the kind of friend you want in your life anymore. Honesty, selflessness and dependability are characteristics of a good friend, and if your friends don’t possess these qualities you may want to reconsider your friendship with them. The most important part of any friendship is honesty, without it no friendship can endure. If friends lie to each other it can lead to mistrust, resentment and anger. Whether it’s over something small and petty or a larger issue, lying to your friends is never the right thing to do. Lying to somebody through omission can be just as bad because you’re still concealing the truth from somebody that considers you a friend. One characteristic of a bad friend is someone who is selfish. Somebody that always wants help from their friends but is never willing to help others when asked isn’t really worth the trouble. These kinds of friends will mislead their own friends in order to get what they want out of them. Friends like this will steal from their friends if they think they can get away with it. They will also put down their friends in order to feel superior to them; and they won’t support their friends’ choices to better themselves. Another sign of a bad friend is a person that isn’t dependable. If a friend is constantly late it can be very irritating to the friend left waiting all the time. Somebody that doesn’t honor their word cannot be trusted and no friendship can last without trust. It shows disrespect if a friend doesn’t have the common courtesy to do what they say they’re going to do. The only thing you can depend on with these kinds of friends is that they will let you down. Even a lifelong friendship may need to be reconsidered if you find yourself with a friend who matches any of these characteristics.