No one to depend on

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Posted by thirdjean
But there's one more thing I don't understand. I'm already treating other people with the ways I wish to be treated back. I always keep my cellphone on and with me in case anyone calls and tells me that they want to die. I don't want them to feel deserted, thinking that there's no one out there to help them. I do that because I have experienced many times the pain about not being able to reach anyone when feeling terrible. But I really don't feel that I'm being treated fairly. Nobody listens to me!

Sucks, don't it? One of the unfortunate truths of the world that you're quickly going to have to accept is that you are an abberation. You're thoughtful above and beyond the standard, and no matter how much you want them to, other people aren't going to live up to the same standard. Your friends don't deserve you; they probably never will. Whether that fact bothers you is up to you.

As a general rule of thumb, friends are thoughtless and unreliable. This is why we differentiate "friends" from "best friends". One group is just the random people we hang out with, the others are the ones you can actually count on half of the time. It's just a sad fact of life that the second type of friend is in short supply.

What you need to do is know that there really are very few people you can rely upon like you want. Just keep looking, be prepared for disappointment, and always make sure you can tell the difference between real friends, and just the casual variety.

Jam it back in, in the dark.