Losing Friends

So much pain... He had few friends, at least friends in his mind. So many people cared for him, but so many hated him too. He would try to change those peoples' minds, but life just doesn't work like that. There is always someone who will hate you. Someone who will be against you. But the hardest of all was losing the few friends he did have as he got worse. The pain was too hard to bear on his own, and so he turned to his friends. But they couldn't handle it either and turned away. As he reached out, they retracted. And he cried, cried, and cried