Conflation (Beginner's Luck Award)

lost conflations (trigger warning)

"Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and

long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is

right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to

love yourself, to make you feel better for a liitle while, or to just be

someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is

going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them

for what they've given us." -Emery Allen                                       

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                                        Readers' Stories

"most of the time, when my friends start to bail on me, it all begins with me being left out of everything (conversations, plans, everything) and then they kind of just drift off no matter how hard i try to talk to them, and eventually, i stop trying, and they keep on drifting. this has happened tons of times, and when i try to talk to them again, they just brush me off and generally don't care. so there." – almosts

"I have this friend called Matei, he's a year older than me and is now a freshman. We used to be close, us three, but the other moved to Croatia. I moved to a different school and then this school year, he and another girl that we were friends with moved to the same school's high school. He found another group and we all just stopped hanging out with him as much. We tried to prank him and then went to the mall, but he ditched us for his other group halfway through. I tried to talk to him a couple weeks ago when I was in the high school building and he just blew me off. I don't even know what happened to the guy I used to play Minecraft with." -basicity

"Me and my best friend were alone one night because my mum was out and I didn't wanna be alone and he kissed me. He ended up asking me out but the next morning after. He ditched me for his ex. We for best friends after that but it wasn't the same we were fight more and how ex came between us. We eventually went our separate ways." –ChelseaRobynCampbell

"here's my story: I once had a very close guy friend. He's 2 year older than me, I considered him as my brother and he did the same too. We were so close and used to talk a lot, talking deep conversations and crush things. His crush was my best friend and mine was his best friend so we did talk a lot about them too. We even went downhill, went hiking together, did late night conversations talking about really unimportant things.

He was protecting me like his own sister in a good way and I loved him so much. A year later, I dated a boy that he despised so much. Apparently, this boy had hurt his ex-girlfriend, the one my 'brother' loved so much. When I told him I was officially in a relationship with that boy, he was so furious he scolded me with harsh words over the phone. I was really hurt with the way he reacted with me and this boy.

I really respected him but he should respect me with my own choices too, should he? I knew why he reacted that way because he didn't want me to get hurt like his ex gf did, but I was blinded by love and hell I regretted my childlike behaviour so much. Since me and that boy dated, me and my fake bro got lost contact.

When eventually that boy hurt me, I talked to my fake bro again, he just coldly replied me with "see I told you" and even after I apologized with the bottom of my heart (I even made a poetry for him) my relationship with my fake bro is never the same. I lost my best friend who's like my own blood brother because he just wanted to protect my feelings and I was just too stubborn to realize that." - kkanyc