Friendship, to me, has always been a more important aspect in life than romance (maybe because I lack the latter in my life thus far) and so I may over-think the things concerning friends. Fall-outs happen and I try to figure out why it happened and whether it could have been prevented.
Whatever it is, it's a relationship between two people. And like a relationship of romantic love, you need to work things out. Communication, trust, balance. If you don't have those, no relationship may work, even the unconditional love ones with your family.
Sometimes people are not aware of how they hurt you. Most of the time, good intentions turn into bad situations but I've always believed that this always happens if you're not being true to yourself. We, being human, like to dress up our selfish needs as good intentions. Come on. Don't deny it.
But just be careful to not be toxic to your friends as well as not to keep friends who are toxic to you.
(Here is a helpful page to help you identify you toxic friends or, God forbid, your own toxic traits)
If you're doing a favour, do it because you really are sincere and not because you want a reward.
If you're lending a helping hand, help because you know you are able to and your friend is in need and not because you want to look good or get some brownie points out of it.
If you actually have some hope or expectations of a reward or payment, tell them. If they are really a friend to you, they'd appreciate the honesty.
If you just can't seem to be honest with them, well, what's the point anyway?
The older you get, the oftener you tend to count your true friends. But why don't we make a difference here by counting how many people we are being true friends to.
I'm still working on being a friend when you're in need. InsyaAllah I'll be a better one in the future. Bismillah.
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