Quote keep your enemies close full#

I encountered my first enemies when I became the prime target of my high school's 'mean girls.' On walks home from school, they'd yell out things to me like, 'musical theater loser' and 'you brown piece of sh*t.' Most of the time, we're incapable of comprehending certain philosophies until we've endured them firsthand. Sure, it makes sense to keep your enemies close, so you can keep tabs on them and seek revenge by pouring ice buckets over their heads when they least expect it.īut, I learned this isn't what the famous quote intended to preach at all.Īfter going through life and encountering many enemies, I came to learn the quote means something a little more Buddhist and a little less vengeful. It took me years to understand the depth of this trite-as-ever quote. Cause he/she knows that you would do the same if the situations were changed, and generally cause coffee or ice cream in a café is better than ‘ a cheer up conversation’ by your hospital bedside.Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Including the one who offered a kidney not out of compulsion, but out of love.

Quote keep your enemies close full#

So rather than have an hospital room full with visiting friends during your scheduled weekly dialysis, why not have a cup of coffee with your friends. And I don’t need to spell it out, we all know that these ones don’t stay when you are down. The more you worry about people who don’t like you, the more the people who pretend to like you become the bulk of your friends. To provide the support you need, to help you, to remind you that life teaches us valuable lessons through this circle. Why not spend the time knowing your friends, knowing that when it’s down and dirty, they are there to get you back on your feet. Cause ultimately, they make up the bulk of our support structure. Why not spend the time and energy we pay to get our haters closer, on making and getting the best friends possible. Even if we cage up all our haters to keep them as close as possible or we ignore them. Point I’m trying to make here is, the down days would come. The sole difference between life and people who hate us is that unlike life, our haters just want us down for no credible reason and they derive joy from watching us down or staying down. It’s how things go, if we are not tested how would we know we’ve grown. Now since life is a journey of ups and downs, by default we would experience downs, if we have enemies or not. Next Question on your mind might be, why is this wrong? For this reason, we tend to pay less attention to those we allow into our care circle, we generally just accept like-minded, easy going, relatable people. It takes a special kind of patience and restrain, all of which consumes brain power. Keeping your enemies closer requires special attention, well they are your enemies and you are about to cozy up with them. How is this relevant to the popular quote I mentioned, you may ask? So at every high, there is bound to be a low, sometime in the future.

Now life isn’t a one-way trip up, it’s full of ups and downs. Well, I recently found out that that’s a really really wrong F**ked up mindset. Remember the saying, ‘Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer!’ This phrase may not apply to you, but I’m very sure it applies to at least 70% of my readers.