When a friend needs your help...

Purely hypothetical situation. (just thinking of stuff to put on here to keep you all entertained and to get you thinking, also to see what type of person you are). Lets say you had a friend, and this friend was doing something that wasn't going to be good for them in the long run. Lets use the example of doing drugs, it could be a bad relationship, alcohol, gambling, whatever. So this friend, lets say you regard them a a close friend. You know that they are doing drugs and are in denial that its affecting them. I've often heard of people on drugs always chasing something. Always looking for that elusive high. The same high that they had the first time. Even when they think they have found what they were looking for, they are never completely satisfied. So this friend says that they can handle it and that all they want to do is find that one thing and then thats it, they can move on. And you try to explain to them that they will never find it and they will never be satisfied. But they just shrug you off saying that, "I don't expect you to understand" and that they have heard the same thing a thousand times before and it never worked then so why should it work now? So you offer to help and they tell you that they don't need your help and its part of who there are and to just except it. Heres the question. Do you try and help that person even though you know what they are doing is wrong and will probably hurt people close to them, and you getting involved will probably upset you as well. Or do you just tell the person that you tried to help them, they didn't want your help and tell them that you can't be friends with that type of person until they sort themselves out? Does leaving the friend indicate that you are giving up on that person as a friend, turning your back on them? Or do you stay and help and persevere with them along the road ahead? If you turn your back on them, does that mean the friendship is over and can never be rebuilt? How long do you give them before you try and be friends again? Until they are completely clean or when they turn the corner?

Its funny how your brain wonders isn't it? If only we could find the way to permanently unlock the unused portion, we'd be so much better off. Please leave me a comment on this. Thats partly why I thought it up, so that you could use the comment feature... see how it works? ;-)

Well, I have to go to the dentist today and the gym so thats all for now.