Personal Narrative: Break-Up

Break ups between friends can sometimes end up being more difficult than the separation with a significant other. When I was in high school, I found myself in a mildly toxic friendship. I met her in the seventh grade and while at that time I found her to be one of my best friends, as we got older the friendship began to grow more strenuous. Occasionally it turns out that people can end up being a completely different person than who you think they are. When I was sixteen years old, I realized just how tough it was to maintain a true friendship when the girl that I thought was one of my closest friends became somebody I felt I didn’t even know. During my junior year of high school, I was going through a pretty tough time with a bad break up, and though you’d think that you can turn to one of your friends …show more content…
It started to seem that maybe she had some jealousy towards me, because she would continually go out of her way to try to embarrass me. It was like she thoroughly enjoyed making fun of me and every single thing that I would do or say. This really began to bother me and get under my skin, but like always I just dismissed the issue. Brushing it off my shoulders didn’t seem to solve anything though, it never ceased. She just kept bringing me down and making me feel worthless, it seemed my biggest insecurities would easily be pointed out at any given moment. One day, everything I have held in for so long came bubbling out. I had finally realized that I’ve kept this “friendship” going long enough. I was tired of being treated as if I were garbage, when that was the last thing I deserved, especially from someone I’ve done so much for. I told her exactly how some of her words made me feel and what she has done to hurt me. She was in denial that she ever did anything wrong, so after a long dispute, we decided to part