by not clickbait » Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:19 pm
I don't know what to do. I have a friend who mutually agrees with me that we dislike a person that we both know, however... he isn't afraid to show it. I'm all for treating everyone with respect no matter my opinion of them, but my friend doesn't seem to think the same. it's not like I pretend to be friends with the person we dislike, it's just that I don't believe I should be mean just because I dislike them.
my friend doesn't seem to agree, and will go out of his way to attack or put down this person in broad daylight. I've never seen someone be this socially cruel to someone in a long time and it frightens me because this is a friend I really care about and would never see them doing something this mean to another person. they're really close to my heart, and it absolutely breaks it whenever I see him treating this person like garbage. for example he'll harass him/start a fight with the person if they come across a comment section of something they've posted on, or talk down on them because my friend is higher in the field of work that he does in a whole groupchat filled with our friends. the disliked person has done some things, yes, and I don't condone them, but still!! I don't feel like it's right to humiliate this person in front of other people!!
what's also really frightening is that whenever I've tried to intervene, my friend has gotten really upset with me too and I find that I'm always scrambling to make amends to make myself feel better because I'm afraid of going through another friendship breakup and being alone when that's really not something my mental health can handle right now. I know in my heart it's not okay to look the other way when this is happening, and if this is a highly toxic trait then it's especially not okay, but every time I've tried to get my friend to stop he's refused to take any blame or gotten upset with me. I feel really bad for the person he's been doing this to despite my mixed feelings about them.
I hate spreading gossip or anything close to it so I haven't shared my feelings with anyone and I really love this friend of mine but coming up with my next set of classes we ended up with the EXACT same timetable which I should be rejoicing about but... being with this person all day knowing they could stand to be that cruel to anybody they want is uncomfortable. but am I a bad friend for thinking that? my record's not clean either. and if I decided to break things off it would just be so much more awkward because we take really similar classes and we're in the same group for the class rotation separated from the rest of our friend group and.. I'd be alone. and uncomfortable. I don't know what else to do but pray my friend sees how much they've hurt this person and feels remorse for it, not only for himself and the person, but for me, too.
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