Fall in the Spring?!?

"True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves found everywhere."
~Anonymous

April might mean spring to the rest of the world, but in mine it is currently fall. I seem to have discovered some left over leaves where flowers, or diamonds in this case, should be. I hate realizing that I don't know people as well as I thought. I hate how fake people can be. I don't understand why people can't be honest and why they deem it necessary to lie about stupid and pretty pointless things that no one would really care about. I hate when they turn around a few days later and act all friendly like nothing happened. Why do people feel the need to pretend to be something they're not?

What really gets me is that I can't tell. I like to see the good in people and believe that people are better than that, mature. I really don't like when I do what I've been taught and forgive only to get hurt again. How is it that people can have a seemingly meaningful talk full of understanding only to have it mean nothing but a pile of crap?

I think Jadakiss said it best in his song titled Who's Real (*clean version*) when he says, "He's phony. She's fake. That's the type of people I hate. If you're real and you know it clap your hands." True words to live by. You know what I hear? Silence. Leaves can't clap.

I hope everyone else is enjoying their sparkling spring because they have diamonds in their lives instead of leaves.