Being Cheated On Was The Best Thing That Could Have Happened To Me…

Sounds like your absolute nightmare, doesn’t it?

Guess what, I have lived that nightmare.

I saw my entire world crumble down into nothingness in that one single moment. I lost both my boyfriend, whom I adored, and my best friend, who was my lifeline, with one jolt. I didn’t think my life could ever be normal again? After all, how can it be, when the two most important people in your life betray you?

Them sleeping together didn’t matter much to me; after all, human beings are naturally wired to be polygamous, and no matter how much it hurt me, I had to accept that. What I didn’t make peace with was the fact that they were not only sleeping together but dating. My boyfriend was sharing his thoughts, his ideas, his desires with my best friend. Makes you feel like you’re not good enough, you’re not sufficient to keep up with his intellect – so much so that he had to go and seek refuge elsewhere, doesn’t it?

And as for my best friend, she was kind enough to make me start questioning the one aspect of relationships I never doubted – friendship. And you know, the typical thoughts that you otherwise don’t even let enter your head creep in. They make you think that “yeah, men will be men, hence the guy did what he did, but how could your best friend betray you like that?”

I didn’t have answers. And I didn’t want to find them either.

Yet I consider that incident as one of the best things that happened to me in my life. Yes, it made me utterly cynical for a while, but that phase was over soon, thanks to my other friends who kept the essence of friendship alive. And thanks to life, because life eventually showed me that I was worthy enough.

But that incident taught me to choose my friends and relations carefully, along with the fact that just because we are good to people, we cannot expect the same in return. What we can do is hope for the best, and take our lesson and then simply move on from whatever bad experience we encounter.

But more than anything, that incident taught me that “Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

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