So Called "Frenemies"

The article “Fickle Friends by Kristen Weir” exposed about what “Frenemies” can be bad for our health, but understanding these taxing relationships can make them less painful. From this article, Kristen Weir the author explain about how the scientist’s research prove that by compromising and understanding the situation a person can reduce the effect of having these “frenemies”. The author also said that many of the people nowadays are rather to keep this “Frenemies” as their friend, it is because their long relationship. We can still keep this kind of relationship but first we must learn how to control our own self.

In the article, the author told that these types of “Frenemies” are usually friends that when we are in trouble they would sacrifice everything to help us up but at the end they gossip about us. They also sometimes boost us up with encouragement and they also bring us down after that. They likely give us full support when we are in love quarrel but at the end they flittering with our ex. We humans are known as the social species, we cannot live without socialize, sometimes friends does give us difficulties and that causes depression, hypertension. This article also told about how researcher conduct an experiment to determine how social interaction effect the blood pressure, the blood pressure rise when people meet with individual meet with ambivalent friends rather than supportive friend. 

Friend is the person that will always support us no matter how hard the situation. Friends will always helping us in time that we need them the most; they are always by our side when our family cannot be there for us. Friends will throw everything that they had only for helping us, they will never leave us alone. These types of friends are willingly to burden very each of our problem onto their own shoulders so that we can feel at ease. Having “frenemies” can affect ones life if not controlled. “Frenemies” can sometimes bring depression for person when they are not aware of it, it is also can cause one to feel irritated and thus affect one surrounding. People perception towards friend of “frenemies” as they continue being friend. People will think that the person is a fool of letting “frenemies” lingering around. “frenemies” sometimes cause people to create a gap between the person because of what the “frenemies” did.