To STAND UP or not to stand up

Those days are over. So they say. The days when you would expect people close to you to champion your cause. The days when you could go ahead and actually make promises for your friend on his behalf, knowing fully well, and being certain of the fact that even if this particular promise does not sit well with him, he will still go ahead and fulfill it...never mind the abuses and kicks you will get later!! That, of course, is between you two.
They say that such FRIENDS type friendship, or even, such Jhankar Beats closeness is only for the movies......impossible otherwise. Really? Well well. A sad place the world is, then. So here goes guys........now is the time to play 'save your skin, dude'. But to what rewards, huh? You are an insecure wreck, without even three people you can really call friends ( and that includes your spouse/parents/ etc etc, sorry to say that out aloud!!). And come on..it is not really all THEIR fault. You ahve used your 'friends' for your benefit, even if that is for something as simple as companoinship, and then at the first instance that he faces trouble, you have dumped him. Okay, so you say, "why the hell should i take sides when it is his and X's fight? Let them solve it!!" Come on...again.....you don't do it to make your friend come of age..you do it to save your pallid skin, so that YOU are not striken off from either his, or X's christmas list!!!
But dude.....you know what you have done in the process, don't you? You have just lost another Friend, and that is it. You have just lost a potential support system......and a voice that could have stood up for you, in case yoyu land up in a soup ever. Well, well....every man to himself!!
But then, ofcourse you are strong enough to live by yourself, right? Hmmm....you had better be. For, if you are not, God Save you. Why? Simple....in your bid to not take a stand, you have given so much offence to so many people, even you do not expect them to stand by you in real times of need, do you? Or are you that naive? Ofcourse you are not.
So sweethearts, learn to TAKE A STAND, FOR YOUR SAKE!! you know the saying, ' one bird in hand worth two in the bush', right?
GOD BLESS