{"id":268,"date":"2011-01-25T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nialangley.com\/blog\/nias-reality.html"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:30:29","slug":"nias-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nialangley.com\/blog\/nias-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Nia&#8217;s Reality of Friendship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No pictures of artwork, fashion, or whatever today. I&#8217;m simply going to write what is on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the realization that I do not have many friends. This may sound kind of bad, but let me attempt to explain this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For clarification, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">this is NOT a sob story<\/span>. If anything it&#8217;s a statement or an expression to show a more personal side of Nia Langley.<\/p>\n<p>The relationships that I have with many people are nearly difficult to explain. I come in contact with many people, and form some sort of new relationship with at least one person everyday. However, I think some people I come in contact with are too quick to call me &#8216;friend&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes down to it, I&#8217;m not mad at people for assuming we have a genuine friendship. Today, the word &#8216;friend&#8217; gets tossed around way too often (along with the word &#8216;love&#8217;, but that&#8217;s another story). Society now has made the idea or concept of friendship not as big of a deal. I do get annoyed, however, when people who claim I&#8217;m their friend assume that I am supposed to fulfill some sort of duty for them (I really don&#8217;t know how to explain it). I have no obligation to most people, because I do not truly <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">know<\/span> most people. I do not truly know most people, because most people I come in contact with are, in truth, acquaintances. Though there are many acquaintances I am very fond of, I cannot say they are my friends without really knowing them.<\/p>\n<p>Is this making any sense?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I don&#8217;t want friends. I simply want REAL ones. I think the more people you let into your life, the more complicated it gets. With that being said, I don&#8217;t want to rush into many friendships, and just because we&#8217;re not <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">friends<\/span>, doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t do anything nice for you. I just don&#8217;t want people expecting things from me without knowing me. I&#8217;d rather start as acquaintances, build a bond, build trust, and form a friendship. Almost all of my acquaintances have the potential to become my friends. I&#8217;m simply not in any hurry to make that transition.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t tell already, my circle of friends is rather tight right now. Not because I&#8217;m cold and distant from people, but because it&#8217;s difficult for me to keep friends. It&#8217;s difficult for me to keep friends, because people tend to get offended when I tell them the truth. I&#8217;m not the type to just go around lying. I&#8217;m also not the one who doesn&#8217;t speak up when I think something is wrong. I say what&#8217;s on my mind. I&#8217;m not loud, but I do say what I want to say (if I&#8217;m sure what it is) when I want to say it. If people are real with me, I&#8217;m going to be real with them. If people are fake with me, I&#8217;m still going to be real with them. That&#8217;s just the way I am.<\/p>\n<p>Along with being real with people, I think my remarks are sometimes misunderstood. I think I can be a really nice person to be around, but when someone crosses my line, it will not always be a pretty picture. If someone steps on my toes,  I don&#8217;t allow the foot to stay there. I kick it off of me usually. <\/p>\n<p>The thing that&#8217;s soooo bizarre about this is I&#8217;m really not a mean person! And (specifically recently) I&#8217;ve come to the realization that I like to see people happy. I enjoy meeting new people. I like to make people smile, and I think that everyone should know what it feels like to be loved.<\/p>\n<p>So to wrap this all up, I think my views on friendship are a bit different than the next guy&#8217;s. I know it&#8217;s kind of weird, but I really want to stay grounded, and I think the best way to do that while having relationships with people is by having true friends that you really know. I also want someone who will put in the same amount of work into the friendship, so it&#8217;s not just me working by myself. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">I am NOT anti-people!<\/span> I would rather really get to know someone better as I build trust.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I have to say on this. Did you follow me at all? 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