American writer, Gore Vidal once said, “Every time a friend succeeds I die a little.” This statement gives an erroneous connotation of what friendship truly means. Friendship should be a relationship in which support, trust, and loyalty are reciprocated between two people. A true friend should be supportive and elated when their friend succeeds. If someone is unsupportive and wishes for their friend to fail, then that person is not a legitimate friend. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Defines the word friend as “a person who helps or supports someone, one attached to another by affection or esteem.” If a friend is someone who supports someone else, saying “Every time a friend succeeds I die a little” really means that you are not friends with
