The Rise Of Shadow Monarch

Prologue (1)

School. It's been a long time since I went and studied like an ordinary high school student. Moments, when you make friends, slowly but directly share thoughts, experiences. At least that's what you can do with those you trust with your darkness. Darkness, or, the past, which carries a dark secret. It is also likely that the rest of the people do not disclose their secrets. Even if they are close ones, or a family with whom you grow up all your life.

The very word "friends" has a deeper meaning.

Friendship is a personal, stable relationship between people based on: sympathy, respect, common interests, spiritual closeness, mutual affection and understanding. People connected by friendship are called friends.

The German philosopher and sociologist, Georg Simmel, believed that modern man, with the complication of his inner world, is forced to hide more, so we can talk about friendship of different sides.

Someone may be associated with sympathy, someone with intellectual interests, religious feelings, or a common life experience.

I didn't have any friends. More precisely, they were, but they can be counted with your fingers. Yes, it's not much, but...

... I didn't understand the people who said, "We need to be friends with everyone."

Their fighting spirit was directly set up to be friends with everyone. All these bright personalities, and it's a waste of time to greet and respond to them with the words "Good morning" or "How was your day?". Including that they are just friends for a day, more precisely, if they do not respond with the same positive, there is no reason to be friends with just anyone.

What's all this about?

I just didn't understand them.

For example, in sociology it is established that friendship and friendship depend on the duration of communication. A friendly relationship requires about 50 hours of continuous conversation. A stranger can be called a friend by a person after 200 hours of personal communication. It's a whole time.

Again, I am not against such personalities or goals, the fact is that having so many friends, in my understanding, is dangerous.

I am sure that you have heard the phrase that the most terrible betrayal is betrayal of oneself.

Imagine a situation where a teenager makes a hundred friends, and over time, trusting them with their secrets, or thoughts, their backs will immediately be attacked, stabbing one or hundreds of knives.

Although, this is more of a metaphor than a direct meaning.

As a person who has experienced betrayal, I can say right away, this is an unpleasant feeling.

But this is a completely different story. I don't mind sharing this, at the moment I would like to finish my monologue.

What was I talking about? Oh, yes, betrayal.

It is not appropriate to talk about betrayal here. It's just a lack of common culture and a tendency to blame others for their own mistakes. Most often, cries of "betrayal" are an indicator of a person's weakness, his confusion and his misunderstanding of what to do.

This is a label that is often hung on a person who has stopped supporting us. His views changed, her mood changed... - and you were counting on support. Yes, it can be very painful, sometimes it entails serious everyday problems, but responsible people in such cases do not think about betrayal, but that it is necessary to select friends and associates more deliberately. If you have been betrayed, more often it is not the traitor's fault, but your problem: you have entrusted the wrong ones.