Staff Editorial

Don’t hold grudges, treat others the best you can

College is a time when the amount of work you have on your plate is so gratuitous that it makes no sense to make things more difficult.

One of the most important things every college student needs is a friend. Friends are the saving grace to those really hard weeks before an important test, or the reliable comfort after a hard day.

The importance of these friendships is so valuable that in the end it’s not worth it to lose people over petty grievances or small issues from the past.

One of the things we are all supposed to learn in college, aside from our chosen curriculums, is life lessons that will help us after college.

Learning these lessons is really just part of the larger theme of growing up and maturing. Forgiving people and learning to admit your mistakes are just a few examples of some changes for the better that may happen in college.

When it comes to friends, forgiveness and humility go a long way. Another thing many college students learn to deal with is the challenge of having a significant other and making time for his or her friends as well. Learning how to balance this isn’t easy, especially when you fall hard for someone.

Luckily, though, friends tend to understand this and remain loyal to their friends that disappear due to a new love interest.

Some college students miss out on these lessons — either by choice, or because they take the attitude that they don’t need many friends anyway. Many of us know of a friend in college who gets caught up in a relationship and then changes for the worse.

College is not the time to let friends go, or to treat others in a disrespectful way. The people you become friends with in college will likely become some of the friends you keep for a long time after graduation.

In the end, the better you treat the people you’re close to, the better off you’ll be. Life is too short to hold grudges or lose friends because of some fleeting argument.

1 Comment

  • This a great post.

    It affirms the idea of creating friendships where in that relationship, your are a friend to someone. One more important thing that many need to learn is that friends often 'grind' on a relationship but too often that's looked on as unfavorable and the friendship is broken just when it's needed the most. So Don't go burning bridges where you can't cross back over to retrieve something you left behind.

    Thanks,
    Mike
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