1st post: Story
Title: The Limit of Sacrifice
Fandom: General Fiction
Prompt: Loyal
Word Count: 501
Rating: G
Summary: Sacrifice is required for friendship, but only as long as it goes both ways.
Friends are said to be the elixir of life.
The support you when you are down.
Fill you like a vessel drop by drop until the water runs over.
They are the givers and receivers of life, love, happiness, sorrow, joy, pain, and every degree in between.
However, I have found this to be only a happy fantasy. I have found fulfillment through friends and the things I have given and received from them.
I left my old friends in high school as I moved on, there voices ringing in my ears as I tearfully boarded the airplane.
“Dalia, keep in touch!”
“Dalia, we’ll love you forever. Don’t you forget it.”
“Dalia, we’ll definitely see each other over break.”
It is amazing how so many of those voices have fallen silent. However, new ones took their place.
I met new people through classes and organizations, wonderful people who shared my eccentric way of thinking as well as my beliefs. Kindred spirits. I thought I had that before and yet I am only now realizing what how rewarding friendship in its truest form can be.
However, part of friendship is loyalty and there were voices from the past which still spoke to me.
They answered my calls.
With them, I retained my old role of listener. I listened and sympathized. I tried to walk in their shoes and understand their problems. These friends stayed the same as I changed. They lived their life in a chaos that I had enjoyed before, growing up rather sheltered. Something had happened in college that I had not expect, I changed more than I thought. I became confident and no longer needed to live life through others. However, I was still the listener but was no longer afraid to tell others what I though. I suddenly wanted to have someone who would listen to me as well.
As I moved forward, many friends from my childhood home continued down paths of self destruction. I listened to their talks and emotionally invested myself in their situation. They loved me for it and continued to tell me for, ask for more.
It felt like a process of decay and I was being drained of me mentally.
The world seemed dull gray as I was consistently encountering negative energy until the world felt like it was destroying itself from the inside out.
I came to rely on others, my friends here who were removed from the situation and my friends back home that had learned to remove themselves from the problems of others, listening objectively instead.
It was time to let some friends go and to let some voices fall silent.
When all a relationship becomes is a giver and a taker, never having the roles switch, it becomes unhealthy. You can not save someone if they want to save themselves.
Friendship does require sacrifice but only if it is on the part of both people.
In the end, one lesson rang through. To thine own self be true.
Fandom: General Fiction
Prompt: Loyal
Word Count: 501
Rating: G
Summary: Sacrifice is required for friendship, but only as long as it goes both ways.
Friends are said to be the elixir of life.
The support you when you are down.
Fill you like a vessel drop by drop until the water runs over.
They are the givers and receivers of life, love, happiness, sorrow, joy, pain, and every degree in between.
However, I have found this to be only a happy fantasy. I have found fulfillment through friends and the things I have given and received from them.
I left my old friends in high school as I moved on, there voices ringing in my ears as I tearfully boarded the airplane.
“Dalia, keep in touch!”
“Dalia, we’ll love you forever. Don’t you forget it.”
“Dalia, we’ll definitely see each other over break.”
It is amazing how so many of those voices have fallen silent. However, new ones took their place.
I met new people through classes and organizations, wonderful people who shared my eccentric way of thinking as well as my beliefs. Kindred spirits. I thought I had that before and yet I am only now realizing what how rewarding friendship in its truest form can be.
However, part of friendship is loyalty and there were voices from the past which still spoke to me.
They answered my calls.
With them, I retained my old role of listener. I listened and sympathized. I tried to walk in their shoes and understand their problems. These friends stayed the same as I changed. They lived their life in a chaos that I had enjoyed before, growing up rather sheltered. Something had happened in college that I had not expect, I changed more than I thought. I became confident and no longer needed to live life through others. However, I was still the listener but was no longer afraid to tell others what I though. I suddenly wanted to have someone who would listen to me as well.
As I moved forward, many friends from my childhood home continued down paths of self destruction. I listened to their talks and emotionally invested myself in their situation. They loved me for it and continued to tell me for, ask for more.
It felt like a process of decay and I was being drained of me mentally.
The world seemed dull gray as I was consistently encountering negative energy until the world felt like it was destroying itself from the inside out.
I came to rely on others, my friends here who were removed from the situation and my friends back home that had learned to remove themselves from the problems of others, listening objectively instead.
It was time to let some friends go and to let some voices fall silent.
When all a relationship becomes is a giver and a taker, never having the roles switch, it becomes unhealthy. You can not save someone if they want to save themselves.
Friendship does require sacrifice but only if it is on the part of both people.
In the end, one lesson rang through. To thine own self be true.