Do you have selfish friends?

@maean_19 (4655)
Philippines
July 3, 2007 8:47pm CST
I always encounter friends like this and most of them are girls. Just this morning, a friend sent me a message asking about something and i told her to go online and check for the site of the Supreme Court. There she could find the bar exam requirements. In addition, i told her that i will send her my copy of said bar requirements to her email address. The reason why she has no copy of the bar exam requirements was that, her companion, a friend also, does not give her a copy. Well in fact, they even see each other. The other friend whom i consider selfish asked my friend to apply for the Bar Exam to the S.C. tomorrow without even sharing or asking whether the requirements were met - just because she has them. Now, my friend asked for help. Ever since, this other friend really doesn't care about others as long as she has it. But, when she doesn't have it, she immediately asked help from me.She wants to be always one step ahead from others. Worse thing is, she's not the one doing the hard work. Whew!
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@setroc (853)
• Philippines
5 Jul 08
dont have any
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@maean_19 (4655)
• Philippines
25 Dec 08
Oh! Good for you, you do not have any. Or you might have but you just ignore or do not notice it...Thank you for responding....
• United States
5 Jul 07
I have a couple of friends I can call selfish...mainly the one that lives with me..he knows that our rent is behind and I am facing court..all he can think about is getting another job to pay his cell phone bill..the part that really makes me angry about that is...HIS CELL PHONE BILL IS MORE THAN OUR RENT!
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@maean_19 (4655)
• Philippines
25 Dec 08
OMG!Well, i understand if you really get mad about that thing......It isn't really proper when your housemate gives more attention about her cellphone than your rent...A real selfish...
@lucky_witch (2707)
• Philippines
5 Jul 07
Yes I have one... but she is not my close friend anymore, I dont intend to be close with this kind of person. It happens during the college days... this friend of mine, happen to be my classmate during that time...she is always there when there are things that she could get form us (her peer) like assignments, notes, etc. We always include her in photocopying of the notes that our professor had given us But when the time comes that she was the one who hae the opy of details taht we are going to discuss during the recitation, I could say shes lucky enough that she succeed in researching that, she never let us know, she never let us photocopy it, she want to keep it to herself. We only know that during the recitation...she doesnt mind sharing it with us. Her reason, its not her fault that we did not find what we are looking for. After class, she come with us, asking if she could copy our assignment... because she wasnt able to do it because of the reserach that she does... Nobody lend her assignment. :P
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• United States
4 Jul 07
Most of my friends are hypocrites. I do not consider them friends anymore, they are more like acquaintances to me now. One of my ex best friends I knew since elementary school and all through high school, ever since she had a baby, our conversations became one sided and it was always about her and her kid. I had a baby too, our kids are almost 2 months apart, so I wanted to talk about my kid but it was always about her. She never asked me about me and my kid. I was always the one listening to her talk about her life. Since we live in different states, our main communication was email. Anyway, she also put guilt trips on me because her life is harder because she's a single mom and I'm married and have support. She also would send her baby's pictures every month, which became very annoying and I wanted to send my son's pictures to her so she could see how much he's changed but she never bothered to ask about his pictures. And this has been going on for 18 months. When I confronted to her that her conversations were one sided and that she hasn't asked about my son's pics for 18 months, instead of her trying to work out her issues, she became hostile and she told me not to email her at work anymore and to email her at her yahoo address. And we haven't talked for over a year already. It's so sad.
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• United States
4 Jul 07
opps, read my 2nd post instead. I added more stuff.
@mr_imi (34)
• Egypt
5 Jul 07
u can't call it friend it is really dont worth to be your friend .u can to be better than here but let her fell that u better than her. i have alot of selfish friends .i make with thim like they make with me. i tried to be better than them but i can't this is the life.
• United States
17 Dec 08
Yes. I have a friend like that. I have known her for years. She mostly calls me to brag about everything and talk about herself.
@cabergren (1181)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I also have a very selfish friend. It is always about her. She always has problems and likes to call me and tell me all about them. I usually try to help her resolve these problems. I think that if she didn't have any problems she wouldn't be happy. But if I perhaps have a problem she usually doesn't have time to listen to me. It is always that she will call me back or she is on her way out. The only reason we are still are friends is that I understand what she is all about. She is still a nice person, but is just selfish.
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@Buchi_bulla (8298)
• India
4 Jul 07
Many of my friends are selfish only. What to do? Life is like that. They never bring anything to my house when they come to my house. I always take as it is my nature. Once I went in a hurry and could not buy any thing. When I saw her son, I said, sorry I could not bring any thing, will buy later. Suddenly I fell very sick and I had to rush home. She did not even bother to give some coffee and told some one that I simply told I will buy later and did not buy any thing. Cannot she think that she never ever brought any thing to my house? I do not expect. But only once it happened like this and she is commenting like this. I felt sad.
@mamasan34 (6518)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I have encountered this in my life as well. I have since removed these types of people from my life. It is very frustrating dealing with that isn't it!
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
4 Jul 07
Were five in a group and we consider it were really best of friends because we share some secrets and we trust each other. One of our best friend even though she has these selfish attitude we still understand her and we are not neglecting her. We actually influence her to be not selfish and we show her how to be a giver.
• Malaysia
4 Jul 07
i have some selfish friends i guess. like whenever i need them, they're never around. whenever i ask them to go out, they ignore me. but whenever they need my help, they keep pestering me for it even though i'm busy. and when they're bored and they ask me to go out with them, it's ok? but it's so hard for me to ask them out. sometimes i'm so sick of it, like why must i follow their decision and what they say every time? sigh..
4 Jul 07
all frnds r gud----but when time comes 2 help or when ur days r not gud then only one can identify which frnd is selfish or not---yaaa i hv faced 2 this my lot i found when ur time is not gud may b finaically or other fmly problems then frndss really selfish----but some r not selfish it differ 2 person 2 person also
@agnescav (566)
• United States
4 Jul 07
There are times when I think my friends are selfish. But if I think back on other times in our relationships, I remember times when I realize that I have been selfish. That is how friendships work. You forgive your friends because you remember them being there for you or forgiving you.
@glow_45 (12)
• Canada
4 Jul 07
Yes, I have a friend like that. She is so awful to my other friend. My other friend asked her to pick up an admission form form from a interior design company that was hiring volunteers and specifically told her that there was only one position available. My friend in turn went to the office and applied for the job for herself. My other friend was devastated, she had waited for that opening forever! I felt so bad for my friend.
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@nandans (1160)
• India
4 Jul 07
I have a very limited no. of friends.. I guess they are not selfish..
@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I do have some very selfish friends. They just do not want to do things on their own and always ask me for help when needing to get something done. They are also never willing to share anything while they expect people to share with them. They also expect people to drive them around yet they will never drive anyone else around.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
4 Jul 07
yaa. now a days it seems that all my friends whom i thought to be my very good friend are all selfish. One is there who was my best friend(as I thought). Now how I want to keep contact with him, he just ignores.now he ha shurt me so. another one was my online freind. After so many days I have come to know due to misunderstanding between us we don't talk and it really don't matters to him.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
4 Jul 07
Yes, I have one friend, who I can rate as 'selfish'. Actually, everyone is selfish (including me). But sometimes, the degree of selfishness crosses the limit, then it hurts and pinches. But since he is my long time frined (since my school days) and leaves nearby....the friendship is going on.
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• India
4 Jul 07
yes i have lot of selfish friends who are always interested in knowin wht use u r tyo them and extractin the most out of u ... they wil pretend to be the best friends,/...
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• Vietnam
4 Jul 07
I had a friend 3 years ago and I thought she is my best friend because she always talked and listened to me. That friendship noly exist in a year. One year later, she had another friend and she didn't talked to me anything. She spoke ill of me to her new friend. She only came and talked to me when she had problem and she needed my help. From these days, I didn't talk to her somethings important, and I knew how to say no with her.
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