bittersweet jane

If you were to choose between keeping a friend and keeping a lover (let's assume that your friend and your lover are related...and choosing one would jeopardize your relationship with the other), who would you keep? Let's complicate it a bit more... What if friendship has already been established long before the lover was met? What if you and your friend had already gone through some of the most difficult times in your life? Would you sacrifice friendship over love?

Certainly, a difficult choice to make, yet some people would consider a friend really true only if he is able to understand that he has to be given up over a much-awaited romance. This decision could be acceptable as long as the person deciding ends up happy. Seeing a friend being loved is always worth the sacrifice - indeed a test of true friendship! But what if you're aware, or shall I say forewarned, that the romance is nothing but an act being played for the sake of convenience? Would you still chose love?


Persons blinded by infatuation never get to see things the way friends do. Sweet words mesmerize them. Promises, no matter how foolish, affirm the hope of a shared feeling. Hunger for affection overpowers the will to be logical. In the end, mind is weakened, rationality fails. The clashing of two opposing parties leaves them with not much choice but to choose one over the other.

Who would you choose?