REFLECTION:
A sixteen-year-old boy heard of the phrase “friends with benefits” from his classmates.
Ashamed of being called ignorant, he searched it on the internet.
He gathered it is about having partners without love and serious commitment.
It lifted him up and changed his outlook on relationships, partnerships, and girls.
He enjoyed playing ‘friends with benefits’ and mastered escaping responsibilities from his girlfriends.
Four years later, his mother got seriously sick. To care full-time for her, his father took long absence from work.
He still had on-leave salary but not the commissions bigger than his regular income.
The boy told his father what a waste to not have those commissions anymore.
His father answered, “Son, when you care for a real friend, you do not need benefits.”
The son froze, shed tears, and said, “Papa, I should have asked you first about ‘friends with benefits’
before I learned of it somewhere.”
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