One of the main questions that we must ask ourselves as we grow older and begin thinking about our lives and who we truly are is “ what is the worst thing I have ever done in my life?” For me this would be abandoning my best friend in high school over a foolish rumor that I never should have believed in the first place.
I was fifteen at the time and as all fifteen years old do I enjoyed gossiping with my friends. One day a friend, well, not really a friend, but rather an acquaintance came up to me and told me that my best friend had been cheating on her boyfriend with a guy that had a rather bad reputation as a drug dealer. The reason that the acquaintance gave for my friend’s infidelity is that she was addicted to marijuana and was sleeping with the drug dealer in order to obtain drugs.
I was a really major fool and chose to believe the rumor and I confronted my best friend over the rumor. Foolishly, I chose to do so in a rather aggressive manner and she became very defensive. She screamed” Why would you believe something like that about me? I hate you, and want nothing to do with you ever again! Why would you wreck a friendship we have had since kindergarten over something a silly bimbo that you don’t even really know is spreading about me?”
With that our friendship ended. We each went our separate ways, and have never spoken since. In the end the rumor was false- she married the guy she was dating and has two kids. I have never regretted anything more than abandoning my best friend and would do anything to make it up to her. It was the worst thing that I have ever done, and unfortunately, it is to late to go back now and to change things.
