No Room For Hypocrites

One thing that really ticks me are hypocrites. I know I cannot change the world and wish that everyone is just as transparent as I am. That's not how the world works. Every now and then in our lives, we come across people we thought are good people, trust-worthy and who we can even consider as friends. However, these so-called friends are just not who we thought them to be.

This year, I vowed to myself that I will not have any room for two-faced people in my life. Well at least not in my close circle. I just hate it when people lead me to believe they're real and I welcomed them in my close-knit friends, only to find out, it's a one way street. I think it's not even a one-way street. It's a cul-de-sac!

I'm wary on trusting people now especially the ones where they seem to be extra nice but deep inside, they have already betrayed you. I want my 2013 to be right. I don't need people who only know me when they need something. I don't want people in my life who only call me when they need a favor. I certainly don't want to acknowledge people who say good things about me but can't look me straight in the eye without fidgeting and glancing to the right and actually mean what they say.

I'm done with all of the hypocrites around me.  I'm better off without the "Tupperwares!" I have my real friends and they may just be few in numbers but their strength in good character when combined is enough to topple even the strongest hypocrites around.

Good bye and good riddance plastics! This 2013 is my "good vibes" year and I have no room for all of you. You can just stay at my back. That's the only place you will be - BEHIND ME!

Fake Friends

Life is so much better when you are surrounded by real friends, the real people who will be there for you no matter what. There are times when you thought a friend is a real friend because this person treats you nice when you are around. This person makes you feel special and loved and when you turn your back, it becomes a different story.

I wish people can be real for once. I don't deserve people like that in my life. So, I decided that I will remove these kinds of people in my life. I don't have to deal with them and I certainly don't have a space for them. I am happy now and I want it that way. One less insignificant and fake person in my life will not make a big impact to me. I have other real friends who love me just as I am!

The UN-Desperate Housewives*

I have many great friends and I am very proud to say that I have managed to keep all of them. I don't know if there's a specific ingredient which makes friendship last, same as marriage but somehow, my friends and I kept the friendship alive.

This is for my mafia here in Dubai who has seen many of my ups and downs in my career and personal life. We have been together through thick and thin, sickness and in health, until-death-do-us-part kind of thing. We enjoy each others company inspite of our differences. Infact, it's those differences which make us all tick. We're like puzzles put together in the proper place and time and I am privileged to have them in my life. They are like my extended family away from my real family back home. We have squabbles too like everyone does but we know how to mend a hurting heart because we're all true to each other.

It's good to have true friends who will be by your side. For expats like us, we long the company of real friends who will listen in every woes, laugh with us, cry with us and share with us life's beauty and promises. I'm happy to have my mafia. I'm pretty sure my life here won't be the same without them.

*special thanks to a good blogpal of blogcatalog - Aorspectacles (http://aor-spectacles.blogspot.com)! I renamed the title from The Mafia to your suggestion which I think is really, really, really brilliant! Muchas Gracias, Merci, Graci, Domo Arigato, Salamat po... =) <----- That one's a big smile from me to you Aor!