The Most Dangerous Game

Friendship, it seems, is nothing more than a nasty game of pollitics.  Maybe it's just my highschool student mantalitly, but trust doesn't come easy for me.  Maybe the world is really out to get me, but even I don't believe that's true.  Am I out to get me? Probably.  That "blood in the water" cliche holds so much truth.  Highschool is like being part of an experiment gone awry.  A gaggle of mad scientest (who's to say who's not mad?) have been plotting the destruction of future genorations for years and now their day of total conquest has arrived! Good ridence to the "best and the brightest," here it's a more primitive sort of selection.  We all got thrown into the shark tank before we could even test the water and now it's sink or swim, eat or be eaten.

I find it difficult to believe that it is my senior year and I'm just now grasping this concept.  Some crazy loon thought the best way to show us the darker side of friendship; the manipulative, sneaky, carry a knife with you always so you can stab someone in the back kind of friendship, would be total emmersion. 

Amature Pollitics 101: keep your friends close and you're enemies closer and sleep with one eye open.  Better yet, don't sleep at all- it keeps you on edge and ready for the attack.  Never take down your gaurd or abandon your post, it's safe there- the real world is filled with slimey polliticians that will do anything to get their way and if you want to survive it, you MUST be one of them.

There is no way around it.  Forget Mr. Nice Guy and Goody Two-Shoes- they're of no good to you now.  They are nothing more than memories of your own weakness and spinelessness.  GROW UP!  This is life we're living, you knew it would be like this so pick your jaw up off the ground.  Friends are for people that have already lost the game or that are trying desperately to win it.  Either way, they're useless to you.  When they break your heart it will only put them one step closer to what they really wanted and leave you choking in the dust.

Is this too harsh? I only say this out of love, right? But then maybe I am just trying to win.  Whatever, think what you must.  Set yourself up for disappointment, or don't even give it a chance.  It's up to you use this information in whatever way you see fitting.  As for me, I've already got it figured out.  I know what I'm doing.