Mean Girls

If there's one thing I've learnt in life it's that there's always going to be a bitchy girl around, no matter where you work, where you hang out, or who you're friends with. Someone who brings you down with her negativity and someone who'd stab you right in the back as soon as you're out of earshot. I know we're all guilty of a little bitch sesh every now and again but there's a difference between a harmless vent about someone's behaviour between friends, and down right nastiness to someone's face.

In reality, girls have very little loyalty to the "sisterhood" and they can throw away good friendships with a flick of their hair and move on. Some girls will be lost to their friends as soon as they land a boyfriend. Some will switch their beliefs and morals to suit the situation. And some just really don't know how to have a meaningful friendship with another female.

Perhaps it stems from their relationship with their mother, or that they were in the bitchy group at high school and have just never grown out of the phase. Because when you get to a corporate environment and find a girl mocking another girl's outfit in the hall ("Didn't you wear that yesterday? Oh no, you've changed your shoes.")*, you realise something must be missing from that girl's life.

When I left high school I thought the bitchy cat fights would have disappeared with the last bell, but since then I have had several dramatic fights with friends, over very trivial things. It's sad to lose a friendship and upsetting to hear someone talking about you behind your back, but in the end all you need to worry about is how you live your life. What your morals are and how you treat other people. Treat others as you would wish to be treated and you will discover true friends who will always have you back (and won't stick anything into it).

Notes on Glossy Paper

*This may or may not have happened where I work.