Daily Blogging #3 // Friendship Rivalry

Does anyone have a better definition for toxic friendship? Does anyone understand what it means to breed toxic circle of friends?
Keeping friends is a good thing, having a circle of friends with like-mind is even much better but do we also know that in the midst of some friendship, toxicity is bred in the form of rivalry?, yes, this is very possible to occur, in fact it happens in our world today and it's very common around us.
We've heard and even read stories of friendships that turn sore and some to the point of even causing physical harm to one another.
That's an example of toxic friendship, but toxic friendship could also arise from rivalry.
When one person thinks highly of himself or herself and lowly of the others he or she calls friends.
This type of friends belittles their friends, they stop at nothing to make them feel less of themselves and always looking for opportunities to rubbish them and rub it to their faces that he or she is better off than them or doing way better than them in certain aspects of their lives.

How can one call his or herself your friend, yet doesn't want to see you progress in life, doesn't appreciate anything that concerns you or even be glad something good happens to you?
What kind of a friend seeks the downfall of another friend? And if situations arises to question the friend, he or she uses it to mock the people he or she calls friends?
No this kind of person is worst than an enemy and the friendship is a toxic one that needs to be avoided.

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I've had an experience or should I rather say an encounter with a circle of friends that competes with one another. Their circle is so full of envy, jealousy, comparison and competition amongst them. One person is always on the lookout for the downfall of the others.
Nothing good is said about themselves if caught behind the scenes. Mostly always betraying and backbiting one another in a very distasteful manner.
And then it makes me wonder what kind of friendship they keep or built that there is so much hatred, envy, jealousy and competition among them.
I doubt it, that I could last in such a place, I dislike a place where there aren't growth or progress in any form and such association or friendship would only drag a person backward and never moving forward, it will only infect one with negativity instead of positivity.
Friendships like that are toxic and should either be discarded, withdrawn from or avoided.
No one deserves to be treated like trash just because one feels greater and better than others.
There are friendship rivalry and such level of toxicity should be avoided at all cost once noticed.

^{13 January, 2025}