Recently, a few of my "friends" have unfriended me and I thought of this thread and I wanted to share what i realize about these friends who unfriended me, and when they did they did not even have the courtesy to say bye or sorry or something like that -- they just decide to stop talking to me and stop replying to my messages, months prior to that. It was very odd behavior for friends or people who would consider themselves as friends to behave. It is not that I stopped talking to them all of a sudden or over time, but rather, they decided to reduce contact and gradually snipped the friendship off. In the meantime, I have been making a lot of new friends that are basically more interesting and more stable in character compared to the old ones. In the past, I am not one of the best people around and my personality was really negative in some way. I was manipulative and i was not appreciative of the people around me. After meeting my Guru I gradually improved and perhaps, friends that I attracted during that time are dropping off because we do not have any common ground anymore, and last time that I checked, they have not improved in any way at all.
I felt sad at first, but soon i realize that most of these "friends" are not beneficial in any way, and they do drag me down and they have by making big things out of nothing. I do have some sort of an attachment to my friends but eventually, I realize it does not make a difference even if I dont have them in my life, and perhaps, the protector removed them so that I can focus more on my Dharma work which is more important in the long run. After evaluating their behaviors and their implications, I realize that it did not matter that they left my life, because somehow, our goals in life changed, and it was time for us to part.
