An emo friend is tolerable. I’m referring to those that just want to slit their wrist for the smallest problems that the good world tosses them.

A melodramatic friend is also tolerable. By this I mean the ones that want to be the leading man/woman in his/her own not-so-dramatic-life.

But the worst thing that could happen to you is to have a friend who is both emo and melodramatic at the same time.

Trust me. I know. Because I have one!

Let’s call him Mr. Leading Man. Well for starters, I’m mighty pissed at him right now because of what he said to me last night but I’ll try not to be as biased in judging his actions. By writing about this I’m targeting you melodramatic emos out there because if you think you’re the only one affected by the worst things that has been happening to you, well, think again. We, your friends, are stuck with you.

It’s not bad to be emotional at times, or to try to be the leading actor in your own drama. What’s bad about it is that you automatically cast your friends in your movie like they volunteered for it. I’m a dreamer myself but I know how to differentiate real life from made up ones. At first I thought it could be the same but I learned that it’s not. And if your life turns out as such then it’s either you’re a pretty damn lucky bastard or you’re just making it all up. Let’s take Mr. Leading Man as an example. This guy keeps saying that he’s nice and all and yeah he’s somewhat nice but he’s definitely not the nicest guy I’ve met! I mean c’mon, how can anyone nice just say that voluntarily about themselves huh? I’d say someone’s pretty stuck up to admit that. Anyway out of all the self inflicted dramatic moments he has churned out in the past years of us knowing each other, last night was by far the worst and most foul of all. I decided to just talk to Mr. Leading Man out of the blue to say hello and ask how he’s been doing. Another reason for me talking to him is I wanted to know how he’s dealing with the recent resignation of 4 of his co-workers in their company. One of them being his bff.

I worked there before and the company’s pretty sucky at dealing with their employees. Mr. Leading Man is now one of the managers there and his bff, let’s call him Mr. Japanophile, is also one of the managers there. The other manager is Mr. Leading Guy’s girlfriend, let’s call her Ms. Leading Lady, who besides being the manager, is also in charge of the accounting and handling the company money part.

With the recent resignation of Mr. Japanophile and 3 of their co-workers, Mr. Leading Guy is pretty pissed off being left by his loved ones to go off to a better place. It would be the case to him but Mr. Leading Guy is so attached to the Slightly Sucky Company and with how he defends the company despite the obvious malfunctions of the Slightly Sucky Company’s big boss’s brain, I will just assume that Slightly Sucky Company Boss is feeding him some strange ginseng that clouds off all Mr. Leading Man’s judgment.

Mr. Leading Man doesn’t understand why they would leave and leave him in a strange position as the manager. Also Mr. Japanophile has threatened to take matters to the Department of Labor and Employment if they won’t give him his 13th month pay. So Mr. Leading Man is pretty riled up at the idea of the company closing down if the law figures out all the bad stuff going on in Slightly Sucky Company. I’d say it’s not going to happen being in this country and all. The under the table and all that crap is pretty rampant here. Anyway, Mr. Japanophile is pressuring Ms. Leading Lady to process his request or else… and this adds to the pile of reasons that pisses off Mr. Leading Man.

He was telling me about this last night and I was advising him to talk to Mr. Japanophile about cutting them some slack and giving them more time to process this. But he just kept on talking about how the ones who left never thought of the ones that are left in Slightly Sucky Company. How they’d think of themselves only, not caring about how hard it will be to deal with the loss of four artists. I told him he should just let it be and it’s natural to just look for a better company if they can’t take the maltreatment anymore. He said that he can’t believe how his bff can do this to him and that’s what hurts him the most. I told him I couldn’t believe that he would react this way knowing that a true friend should actually be happy for his friend getting into a better company that I’ve heard treats and pays their employees very well. Not to mention providing an equally awesome work experience just like in Slightly Sucky Company.

And then he was probably pissed off that I wasn’t siding with him that he just told me to just go stare at my bankbook and I’m obviously not the right person to talk to about this.

Uhmm…ok. I know I’ve heard that line in some movie/drama before.

Has he been assuming that I wasn’t enjoying my current job that provides me joy, pays me well and treats me so well?

I have always stuck to my principles that it doesn’t matter whether I get treated badly just as long as I can enjoy the work I do. But that doesn’t mean that If I see a better opportunity, I would just ignore it and be a martyr all my life. C’mon. I’m definitely not a saint and I don’t want to be one. These sucky companies deserved to be left if their treatment of employees is pretty sucky as well. It’s life mahn! And you move on. Now I do respect him sticking up for Slightly Sucky Company. I mean that’s how he wants it so it’s ok. But how can he expect everyone around him to feel the same? And the entire conversation last night has been pretty childish. And yeah I’m pissed off because I don’t expect too much from him but what he did was just low.

So if you get a friend who is both emo and melodramatic then by all means, ready yourself. It’s either you be one of the cast or you just stir away from the camera.