Toxic Friendships

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I have always been a very social person and prefer to be surrounded by friends and family. I value all of my friendships and appreciate all of the people who make my life better but, I also have trouble with toxic friendships. When I was in about fourth grade, one of my friends who I had known since kindergarten and I had a fight that really upset me, but we are friends still today and are planning on hanging out over the summer. My move was tough on both of us and we had some issues. So what? All friends fight and that’s normal, but how you deal with the fight is what makes the difference between a toxic and nontoxic friendship. In sixth grade, I had some friends who I would always fight with and it would always be my fault, no matter how …show more content…

I have to rebuild myself better and stronger. One of the many lines I truly can relate to is “Words cut through my skin/tears roll down my chin/my walls crumble within.” This is basically saying that words can be as harmful as a weapon and that I do feel hurt and upset by everything you tell me, but I allow myself to break on the inside. I believe this shows how strong the artist wants to make you feel, how you are not the only one who crumbles and breaks down inside. The next lines of the chorus continue to say “But I’ll take it all on and get up when I fall/till the last curtain call.” These lines remind me to not let it hurt me, and to me I think the artist was trying to tell you that what other people should not dictate your life. When W told me how I never think of anybody except for myself, it hurt me a lot, but I have to be strong about it and not let them know how much they hurt me and I have to stand tall. If I let them see how upset and hurt I am, that may just have been the reaction they were trying to provoke. W wanted me to feel as though everything she had done to me was somehow all my fault and that she was

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