After months of impressing a bad crowd, he crossed the line one night at a carnival. He not only learned a lesson, but he also lost his girlfriend.
The Wrong Crowd
At the time, he was in a group of really bad friends and did silly things to impress them. He would do things like steal and pickpocket people. They were a bad influence on him.
Vulnerable Period
At the time, he felt as though he was lacking in confidence and was looking for quick fixes to make him feel better about himself. He suspects that this was the crux of the issue.
A Good Relationship
The only thing in his life that was really good at the time was his girlfriend. He really loved her, and they were best friends, always hanging out with each other and laughing at each other’s jokes. He felt he’d be lost without her.
Questionable Friends
One evening, they went to a carnival party where everybody dressed up. His girlfriend at the time was with a group of friends she didn’t know too well and didn’t like either. They had each other, so he was happy.
An Attempt to Impress
At the party, he was on a roll and decided to make things a little more exciting. He cringes when he thinks about it now, but he feels an urge to really impress his ‘friends.’
A Big One
He knew that he needed to do something really impressive to outdo the others, but he couldn’t think what that might be. They’d all pickpocketed people on several occasions, so it needed to be a bit better than the norm.
An Unfortunate Decision
He decided to pickpocket the ‘friend‘ of his girlfriend. It worked out and his ‘friends’ were super proud of him. At the time, that meant a lot to him, and he really felt good about himself.
Seeking Thrills
He noticed that he was always seeking some sort of thrill, and it was becoming exhausting. He was sure that always he’d end up feeling brilliant after performing these acts, but that was becoming less so.
The Hollow Motivation
He realized that although he had the attention he craved, the haul wasn’t even that great. But that wasn’t even the motivation for him at the time. He’d felt the need to have some sort of silly thrill, just for his ‘friends’.
The Train Ride Home
Later, when they went home, they waited on the train, and the ‘friend’ of his girlfriend was crying because she’d lost her wallet. He started to feel really bad and extremely guilty.
Discovering the Theft
Another of her friends then realized that the girl’s wallet had been in a zip compartment of her bag. The girl agrees and says there was a double zip in fact! They conclude that someone must have stolen the wallet!
Worsening Guilt
He started to feel really guilty at this point and realized how much he regretted his stupid actions. He wished he could reverse what he’d done, it wasn’t even as though he needed her wallet!
Pretending To Care
He decided in his questionable wisdom of the time, to try and console her. It worked for as far as he can remember; at least she stopped crying. She calmed down a lot and seemed to shrug it off.
His Cold-Hearted Deed Revealed
He eventually told his girlfriend about what he’d done. At the time, she actually laughed about it as she wasn’t too bothered about her friends anyway. He was relieved.
A Relationship Crumbling
However, after further incidents of a similar nature, they eventually broke up which was one of the last strings between him and his ‘evil’ friends. He blamed them for the breakdown of his relationship.
Too Impressionable
His girlfriend told him that he was too easily impressed by his friends and that he really needed to have a mind of his own. She said that whatever they told him to do, he’d have done it. She was right!
A Deep Cut
When she went on to say that gullibility was a highly unattractive trait and that she liked guys that thought for themselves, he felt like a real sucker. It was a dig to the stomach that made him feel sick.
Regretting His Actions
Looking back, he knows he was wrong and feels he learned from it. But for him, it was still the dumbest and meanest thing he ever did to anyone, even though he got away with it.
A Lesson Learned the Hard Way
Since then, he has chosen his friends carefully and only sticks with people who actually make him feel good about himself and accept him for who he is. He longer tried to impress anyone!
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