Friends are our ultimate comfort, in our daily life we end up with different people who leave various feelings behind, but friends never make you feel stuck, they don't force their opinion on you and when you choose your way, they help you. toxicity is around us for million years it's just we started to take it seriously recently because now our mental health is more important than anything so it's important to remove the toxic relationship from your life, I had one of these toxic friends too, being the naive human I didn't realize how much that person was impacting on my life.

She is a confident girl, we met in an 8th class let's name her Ravi, we were just connected through mutual friends until I got a project to work on with her, from the distance she looked pretty normal and sorted out until I got in touch with her personally, without explaining much she considered herself my closest friend and was not clever enough to clear it out neither I wanted to, who doesn't like friends?

Since that day we both were sticking together but to be honest, she was bold and intelligent she knew how to fight but something that kept me off was whenever she fought with someone I was not allowed to talk to that person anymore, she constantly tried to change my opinions about people and no matter what happened I was the only one to say sorry. it kept going till 10th standard, more years added to our friendship the more I felt myself being manipulated and stuck.

For some time I was unaware of a solution to how I might break it to her about this behavior, but it was always an unsuccessful attempt, I wasn't sure if I'll ever be able to get out of this. it was not the end but surely felt like one, then I started using social media and learned a lot from there, the experience and solutions from my online friends, they taught me what a true friendship is like, and only they gave me tips to free myself from a toxic a friend. 

It was not going to be easy but I suffered enough if you have ever been in a toxic relationship you'll know how it feels there, so I did start to keep my distance from her as much as possible. I stopped explaining myself to her every time and I set my boundaries and I was aware she noticed the changes in me and it kinda shook her, for some time she tried to blame me how I have changed and it might break our friendship and I didn't flinch on her words, just kept my expressions stern and declared she is no longer in charge of my actions and thoughts. shouting would not have helped but I kept myself as clear as possible, from that day she and I are still friends but there's a boundary she can't cross.

Remember toxicity ends when you put the full stop.