“blinded”

I have spent my entire life believing what I thought was real, but I have only made a fool out of myself. it
all started when I was in high school, I never knew how to make friends and socialize as I was
homeschooled when I was in grade school. I tried and I tried, yet no one wanted to be friends with me.
Until this one time a nice and friendly girl talked to me and we started hanging out together. We
became best friends and promised to never leave each other behind. As time passes I developed my
social skills and made a lot of friends. I was known by almost everyone at my school. I started hanging
out with new people and never even thought of my old friend. She doesn’t seem to be bothered but I
know she is. More and more people want to hang out with me, and I decided that one time to treat
everyone with food, I thought to myself just this one time. People started to love and praise me even
more. So I continued in the next few days in treating my new found friends. One day when I went home.
I saw my mom crying in our house, I noticed that only a few of our furniture is left. I discovered that we
were going broke. For some reason this news spread out in school. I walked in the school hallway filled
with shame and embarrassment as not everyone can understand my situation. My friends ignored me
and I was treated differently and was ridiculed. My heart sank and eventually I felt the need to cry, so I
quickly ran into the bathroom and sobbed. I never been so hurt in my life, later on someone knocked. I
asked the person to go away but she refused. I opened the door and saw it was my best friend. She
hugged me and gave me a tissue. We resolved our issues and became friends again. I was blinded but
now I realized that it isn’t the approval and acceptance of everyone around you that makes you yourself
but it is the love that you get from those who matter to you and those who care for you that truly
matters.