Sean+O'Ks+Op-Ed+Article

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=Friends=

A friend. Someone, by definition, you put complete trust into. You spend most of your time with them and wind up having some of your best moments with them. That is, until they betray that trust. They do the unthinkable and you find it hard to ever trust them again and you wind up resenting a friend that you have known for a great deal of your life. Even when you find it in your heart to forgive them you find it hard to ever put the same amount of trust into them as you originally had because no matter how sorry they are, what's done is done. Eventually it really makes you wonder, why would this person that has known you for so long do something like that to you? And then you start to blame yourself. You think "Oh i'm being too petty, if he were in my situation he'd forgive me." But then you come to this sudden realization that it is his fault and you are not at all at fault, but in order to save your friendship you have to forgive this friend that completely shattered your trust. In the end, friendship truly is brittle and can be shattered with a single action, but it is up to those friends to pick up the pieces.