At summer camp, I had a large group of close friends. We all liked theater, and got along most of the time. Except there were always some quarrels. One of them was between me and another girl. I don’t know why we didn’t get along, I guess she didn’t like the way I acted, and I didn’t like the way she acted either. So there tended to be fights between us most of the time. Since we didn’t get along, other people in our group noticed it. The girl would sometimes tell our other friends about how she didn’t approve of my behavior, and I heard about it from them. After all, they were my friends and would stick up for me if she got too mean and out of hand in her behavior.
I had a choice to make. I needed to decide if I should confront her on her behavior, or leave it alone. In the end, I did confront the girl privately to ask her why she acted so hateful towards me. She told me why, and we talked like civilized people until our problems were resolved. After a while, we didn’t fight any more and, while not really being friends, we weren’t enemies either. I think I made the right choice, because if I had ignored what was happening, then things might’ve never gotten better and instead worse. There probably wasn’t a better way of handling it, and I’m happy that I ended up being able to work things out with her to make my summer more enjoyable.