Friendship is a Horror Movie
The Monsters Within Us: Emotional Immaturity and the Fragility of Human Relationships.
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of what friendship really is and how fragile it can be.
Human relationships are seeds that need to be fed every day. We are not always in the same stage of life, and while you may seem completely fine from the outside, inside you’re fighting a battle nobody knows about. And it’s getting harder to talk about, even though we live in a time where communication, emotional awareness and vulnerability are constantly encouraged.
However actually having difficult conversations seems increasingly complicated, or worse being misunderstood and becoming the villain of their stories.
People are not always willing to listen to you or stay by your side. You can easily become the person they cut out of their lives, not necessarily because the friendship was fake, but because admitting you’ve hurt someone is way more difficult than dealing with your own ego.
There's an interesting distinction between someone who deliberately exploits a friendship and someone who simply doesn't have the emotional maturity to acknowledge the damage they've caused. Sometimes people don't necessarily exploit you consciously.
They simply prioritise their own comfort, avoid accountability and leave you dealing with the consequences… and that’s when manipulation and betrayal come to the surface.
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The Gift
Getting close to the enemy who once caused you profound damage, just to watch them experience the consequences of their own actions. Sometimes revenge is the only conversation people are willing to have.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Sometimes you simply stop feeling connected to a friend, but have no idea how to end the friendship. And sometimes the other person just can’t accept that you’ve stopped wanting them in your life.
All My Friends Hate Me
Is paranoia just a creation of our own minds, or can it be fuelled by people who refuse to accept who we’ve become? Sometimes the line between our insecurities and other people’s cruelty becomes dangerously blurred.
Shallow Grave
When competition and betrayal enter a friendship, how much loyalty survives when everyone’s personal interests are at stake? And what is left of a friendship when there’s nothing left to gain from it?
The Craft
The good girls turning mean girls can exploit a friendship and inflict emotional damage simply because they lack the emotional maturity to face their own internal voids. They choose their own comfort over their friends' safety, and turn someone into the villain the moment that person tries to set boundaries.
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Are we really all fucked up?
Or are we too scared to have certain conversations about ourselves?
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