#2. Stupid friends make for stupid decisions

The last three days of my life have been SCREAMING for this addition to my rules. I'm beginning to realise that nearly everyone has one friend that they've known for a few years and in all truthfullness you only really make an effort with because they're available, occasionally entertaining and you pity them.

As with all other things that usually occur in my life I had to go above and beyond the generic and the girl who had this role in my life was a year younger than me, a compulsive liar yet too stupid to cover her tracks well and she was always the victim. So while all my other friends did the smart thing and over the years walked away for various reasons I stuck around and ended up getting dragged into the most idiotic and sometimes even dangerous situations. It was as if my need to pity her fused together my brain cells and I'd find myself doing things when frankly I knew FAR better. To let so many things slide was just stupid and to laugh about it after was clinically dumb.

So eventually things went too far and I decided to cut my losses, ignore her ass and move on. As it is with dumb people she didn't know better than to walk away quickly and the last three days have been a saga of her tears to my face, running away to drag her chihuahua friends into the mix to threaten me and eventually not making good. I mean she's so stupid she can't back herself up to my face and somehow STILL sees herself as a victim. I wasn't mean, just brutully honest and she couldn't give me a damn answer only to then have the audacity to continue being an attention seeking, drama creating child.

I'm actually kinda disappointed that I let her get to me and didn't just walk away. A friend told me a few months ago about something the Prophet PBUH once said that's stuck with me. Now I don't remember it perfectly so I'm just paraphrasing. "If you're with someone who smells bad for 40 days their bad smell will stick to you. And if you're with someone who smells good for 40 days their nice smell will stick to you."

ANNIE'S RULE #2. STUPID FRIENDS MAKE FOR STUPID DECISIONS

This can be turned around to smart friends make for smart decisions. So if you find yourself with someone who can't spell Aristotle let alone know who he is, run for the hills. They can hate him and argue against his philosophy (that's brilliant) but everyone naturally mimics the people they're with so if the person you're with is ignorant, what does that make you?

And I, for one, WILL judge you based on the company you keep.