When I was in high school there was an interesting phenomenon that would take place when I would become friends with a girl. She would always end up revealing that she had feelings for me and then I obviously did not reciprocate and would be surprised. This would lead them to hold a grudge and ultimately the friendship would crumble.

In one particular instance there was a girl I had been somewhat good friends with as we had participated in an extracurricular after school for a long time and were both leaders. She never told me she had feelings but I was told by many she did and that she held a grudge. And for some reason she took it upon herself to lie about me to the staff and create false accusations. She told them that I was a horrible bully for around a year and made sure to snitch on every minor little thing that I did wrong no matter what it was. She would tell them blatant lies about me to turn them against me. The teachers and staff grew to hate me because she portrayed herself as a victim in situations that were nothing more than petty disagreements even. I had no clue that this was happening until it came time for next season and all of this was sprung on me. Not a soul ever wanted to discuss or hear me until then. I was shocked because I had never been anything but nice and professional to anyone in that entire school. Eventually I had to defend myself before a ton of grown adults who actively hated my guts. And they never believed me to this day. The kicker is, during this process the girl created an entire website about me just to use to bully me and when it was taken to the staff and the school higher ups, the principal was involved in some stupid process where she ultimately was never reprimanded and never punished even a little bit. Despite my entire school messaging me about this website asking me what was going on. It was embarrassing and enraging. I was never allowed to even have a say in the process beyond getting random calls from staff.

This forced me to leave my passion and my future career because of a girl who lied. Because i knew I would only suffer and be taken advantage of and denied the placements I deserved because these people hated me now and faced zero consequence. I would have been absolutely miserable and even worse they would have probably done their best to ruin me further. I’m 23 now and I have never recovered. I’ve been directionless ever since even after college. If I ever had a true talent it was music and band. I mean I don’t brag about stuff but I truly had something special it was so natural for me. Whereas the girl never took it that seriously, was genuinely subpar, and didn’t practice or do activities outside of school. I had planned to do it for the rest of my life. Women ruin lives just because they can.