Coming to the conclusion that life can be a miserable existence occurs to most people probably a few times in life.  However, what to do with that conclusion is a whole other story. It’s hard to discover that friends are not whom you’ve always thought them to be.  But then again you always knew who they were but never accepted it.  That feeling that you had 4 or 10 years ago that you should stay away from this person just never seemed to have any basis in reality. You could never quite put your finger on it but something about your friendship just didn’t feel quite right. Then one day your friend shows their true colors by flaking out on you, or yelling at you, or maybe it was an angry email listing all of your faults from the womb until now. It wasn’t the blow up itself but the venom in the bite that opened your eyes to the fact that this person clearly has a strong dislike for you. So perhaps now you know who your true friends are. Could you have figured it out before? Maybe? The bottom line is it would have never come to this if you had listened to your instincts all those years ago.  Your instincts, the Holy Spirit, your 6th sense – they are all more truthful than the human tongue.