Friendship
When you’re most in need and the one who’s supposed to be by your side is not, you may think that friendship is like a mountain: hard to climb, but easy to descend. It took you a long time to get to know each other, but it only took a moment of need for all that to come to its end. It makes sense, but in reality, there was no mountain, and there was no friendship. You just thought there was, because you were still learning what true friendship is.
Sometimes, when you’re most in need, you don’t find those you thought were close to you by your side. Instead, you find a complete stranger, someone you’ve never met before, someone who has nothing material to gain. And you realize that the word "friend" only means a good person who happened to be there for you — whether for years or just a day. You may part ways afterward, you may never meet again, but in your heart, you know he will always be your friend.
The reason why people pretend to be your friends, pretend to be good, is because they want you to think that they deserve whatever it is that they want from you. So, before you decide it’s true and give it to them, remember: the only way to really know others is not only by knowing what things they do, but why they do them. For an action may be the same, but not really. The man who takes for hunger is not the man who takes for greed, and the man who gives for love is not the man who gives for what others say about him.
It may not matter to you what’s taken or given, but behind your back, a false friend will not say you’re generous, but will say you’re stupid and he fooled you.