Who Is Really Your Friend?

Before I go down to the discussion proper, I would want to tell you guys what actually happened. I stay with someone I call my very good friend in a flat and we do everything together. Today I was to go visit a friend of ours that I have been promising I would come see him and because I have no ride, I asked my friend to help drop me off. Before I could arrange and come out, he was already waiting for me in the car with our friend so in a bid to meet up with them, I forgot my Ipad. 

Along the way like 3 poles from the house, I had this feeling I forgot something I really needed but couldn't really pinpoint what it was. I mentioned him to stop that I forgot something, he did- I checked my phone, it was they but I didn't check the shuttle bag I had on my laps for my Ipad. The feeling that I forgot something never left me so after like a kilometer, it struck me to check the pad, I did and it wasn't they.
I asked my friend to please turn back because I forgot my pad and he of all persons knows how important the pad is to my work but he didn't.


Now don't get me wrong.. I know I messed up and even deserve a spanking if I was a kid but then he is my friend, what are friends for if not for good and bad times. My friend drove me to our friends house Knowing there is no way i can be without that pad. I was just dumbfounded about the whole situation, how he could actually do that, what was on his mind, what was he doing?

I tried to put myself in his shoes and I tried to remember times I have been in that kind of situation and what I did. In as much as I would get angry and shout, I would never let a friend down, I will turn back the car no matter how painful it might be. 

Now we got to our friends house and because I cant stay without the pad, I have to go back to the house with him. This might sound trivial but let me tell you, its in little things we know who really care and how valuable you are to people around you. Things that don't really matter to anyone else but you and only you.

This situation today made me analyze a lot of things, analyze some people around me and how they value me. He just spoilt the weekend for me- I know some people would say ; Go buy your own ride but its never about the car and he knows it.. its about whats on the mind of people you call your friend.

That brings us to the question at hand.. who is your friend? does your friend make you follow, does your friend always disrespect you and let you down? treat you like a kid, make you feel half of you.. Its time we analyze people we call friend- Maybe you might not be able to ditch anybody now but at least you will be in the know of how people you friend really feel about you deep down. let me know what think...