Minho, "scoot Over!!"

Minho, "scoot over!!"

Jeongin, "I was here first"

Minho, "I am older than you"

Jeongin, "exactly!! Go break up your hip instead of fighting for my chair"

Hyunjin: "When I first met you, I thought you were annoying"

Han, "And?"

Hyunjin, "and you are!!"

BOYFRIEND TEXTS ✰ established relationship / fluff

; a glimpse of the texts shared between you and your boyfriend ; yang jeongin.

pairing. jeongin x gn!reader

cw. profanities / shut up used jokingly / i hate you used jokingly.

masterlist

author’s note. can you tell i’m not confident in my characterization of him 😞💔 ( 3 / 8 )

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Jisung, "I have a plan"

Seungmin, "I have the hospital and Chan on speed dial"

Straykids on the dinner table-

Minho, "I need a book recommendation!!"

Seungmin, "The Bible!!"

FRIEND OR ENEMY?

Never put too much trust in friends. Keep a close eye on your friends — they easily become envious and resentful, and will undermine you. In contrast, if you promote an enemy, he’ll be more loyal than a friend in an effort to prove himself. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies.

“I’d rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down”

-Karen Salmansohn

In a speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the height of the Civil War, he referred to the Southerners as fellow human beings who were in the wrong direction. An elderly lady criticized him for not calling them incompatible enemies who must be destroyed. “Why?, madam,” Lincoln replied, “do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

According to him, you destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.It is natural to want to recruit your friends when you find yourself in times of need. The world is a harsh place, and your friends soften this harshness. Besides, you know them. They keep you entertained and make things go easy and comfortable. Why depend on a stranger when you have a friend at hand?

The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument. They cover up their unpleasant qualities so as to not offend each other. They laugh extra hard at each other’s jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say that they adore your music and envy your taste in clothes. Maybe they mean it, often they do not. When you decide to hire a friend, you gradually discover the qualities he or she has kept hidden.

There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know, your friendship fades.

The more favours and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive. Because showing gratitude is a burden while revenge is a pleasure.

Ingratitude has a long and deep history.

A Brahman, a great expert in Veda who has become a great archer as well, offers his services to his good friend, who is now the king. The Brahman cries out when he sees the king, “Recognize me, your friend!”

The king answers him, “ Yes, we were friends before, but our friendship was based on what powers we had....... I was friends with you because it served my purpose. No pauper is a friend to the rich, no fool to the wise, no coward to the brave. An old friend! Who needs him? It is two men of equal wealth and equal birth who contract friendship and marriage.......

An old friend~ who needs him?

Reference from-

THE MAHABHARAT,

THIRD CENTURY B.C

The Jaws of Ingratitude. Knowing what would happen if you put a finger in the mouth of a lion, you would stay clear of it. With friends, you will have no such caution, and if you hire them, they will eat you alive with ingratitude.

“When you see water flowing uphill, it means that someone is repaying a kindness.”

Reference from-

THE SNAKE, THE FARMER, AND THE HERON

AFRICAN FOLK TALE

All working situations require a kind of distance between people. You are trying to work, not make friends; friendliness (real or false) only obscures that fact. They key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert.

Finally, the problem about working with friends is that it confuses the boundaries and distances that working requires. But if both partners in the arrangement understand the dangers involved, a friend often can be employed to great effect. You must never let your guard down in such a venture, however; always be on the lookout for any signs of emotional disturbance such as envy and ingratitude. Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even the closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

Then is there nothing like true friendship?

It can be. Apart from your parents people who show the real self to you. The friendship where you can show or say what you really feel. Where you don’t fear of letting your guard down. The friendship where gratitude is not a burden can be considered as a true or needed friendship which is exceptional and infrequent. If you ever find this kind of friendship then protect it with your life.