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Stop and evaluate the way you view people,
You're constantly complaining about their inability to care for you as deeply as you deserve.

You act like they neglect you, that they don't vocalize that they care enough - but stop. Think. Realize.

You and you alone teach people how to love you,
You let them know that behaviors that are less than savory are acceptable to you,
By telling them "its okay" when they've wronged you, even slightly,

And yet as time goes on, as they continue with these behaviors,
You grow agitated and aggravated that they are wronging you, unknowingly, because you taught them to.

Are your friends as selfish as you say they are?
Or are they merely loving you the way you've conditioned them to?

Please don't play the victim, or paint your friends in a bad light,
When you're to blame for their "neglectful" behaviors.

You are the only one that can show someone how you need to be loved.

Say something to them, continue taking the love they have, or let them learn to love someone new.

It's what's best.