Friends. Expendable?

I came across this question in my mind today and i asked myself. Are my friends expendable? What about yours? Are they expendable to you?

First of all, let me take you for some lessons and enlightenment. What does expendable mean? Taken from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, expendable means easily replaced or economically replaced. So, the main question that i am emphasizing in this post is, can your friends be easily replaced?

I will be 22 this year and i believe i can say that i have gone through my fair share of experience that a 22 year old teen could go through. Some may have gone through incidents or situations that are far more worse that i have gone though. But, simply put, we've all gone through something and not everyone will go through the same thing.

It is true that each and everyone of us has gone through different life experiences but there is one thing that i am certain that will happen in everyone's life once they reach their teen years. Betrayal and backstabbing. What does betrayal and backstabbing has got to do with expendable friends? Easy, it all goes down to why does someone betray or backstab you. When someone close or he/she is just a normal friend betrays or backstabs you, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Most of the people i know would definitely act irrationally.

If it was me, i would just calm down and just think a bit more rationally before making any decisions. In the end, i always decide on one conclusion. That is, the person that i call friend just thinks that i am an "expendable friend" thus it led to his/her treachery of betrayal and backstabbing.

Why do i say this? If you think about it logically, if you cherish your friend it would never cross your mind to betray or backstab him/her. When i say cherish i mean like appreciate him/her as a close friend or even just as a normal friend, never thinking of taking advantage or him/her or even using him/her for any purpose that would benefit you or someone else.

I have been through these and needless to say, i have been through the betrayal and backstabbing part quite a number of times. From every single one of these cases, i have drawn out simple conclusion for myself and maybe for those out there who thinks the same way that i do. Trust is an important factor in friendship thus those who honor and take friendships seriously will do anything in their power to uphold the trust that exists in their friendships. Still, there is one single thing in this world that can destroy that trust in a split second no matter in which country you live in, it is all the same. Money.

Money, money, money. It makes the world go round. Without money, there would be almost no life on earth. Not to say breathing and still alive type of life, but life as in people working hard to earn money, people spending money for entertainment and etc. Of course, not everyone has the same status and wealth. In my opinion, the world today runs on a principle that is undeniable. The rich rule and control almost everything. Even the world economy. Imagine that, the destructive power of money. Money can build something out of nothing and it also can destroy that something in a split second. Money is the devil in disguise!! Don't you think so? People kill, rob, kidnap, and do a whole lot of crimes just to get a hold of money.

I don't know if you understand what i meant after reading the paragraphs above but the main thing that i wish to emphasize is that, no matter what, never let money get in between friendship ties. No matter what you do, do not value money over the friendship ties that you have with your friends. I have seen it happen to others and honestly it happened to me too. How i wish money never exists. That way, i could always keep my friends and never see betrayal or backstabbing happen.