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A Not So Boaring Tale
Everyday on the farm, the horse and the boar would roll in the sticky, brown mud and laugh together until their stomachs hurt. They had been friends since the horse transferred farms when she was four. The most beautiful horse, Blue Jeans and the useless boar, Porker were basically family and had been through all the animal drama together. However, when they got to the middle farm, Poker began ignoring Blue Jeans and finding new animals to run around with in the fresh cut grass. Blue Jeans held onto the friendship like a kite, but she also began drifting towards other animals.
In their third year of working lessons, Blue Jeans and Porker were friends again and were getting along. They went into each others pens to just prance around in the hay and have fun. Blue Jeans had thought that her and Porker were once again best friends. As the year went on, Porker began excluding Blue Jeans from the animal activities.
“Just tell her how you feel,” Daisy and Gracie, Blue Jeans’ other friends informed her.
“I don’t want to sound like an annoying friend,” Blue Jeans noted while giving Porker a quick glare. She decided to keep quiet and still be her friend even though Porker didn’t treat her like one.
“Oh my gosh, look at that cat, her spots are so ugly,” Porker would cackle. The only thing Porker did well was gossiping about the other animals. She was a real pig. Blue Jeans continued to deal with the way Porker treated her. Blue Jeans began to just lay around in her pen all day. None of the animals invited Blue Jeans to roll in hay anymore and she felt extreme aggravation. Porker only talked to Blue Jeans in middle farm because she wanted her to do all her work for her. Blue Jeans knew she did not deserve that kind of friendship. She dreamed of going to the Animal Shop together and sleepover in each others pens and being the type of friends she saw on Gossip Horse. That was far from reality though.
Eventually, Porker began to get into a lot of trouble. She had several visits to the head of the farm. One day, Blue Jeans came running out of hay stacking class to see Porker upset. As usual, Blue Jeans was there for her when nobody else was. Blue Jeans was the glue that held her together but she got nothing in return.
“I don’t want to feel this depressed feeling anymore Gracie,” Blue Jeans would cry.
“ I think you should just stop being her friend and discard her from your life,” Gracie suggested. Blue Jeans thought it through. Would middle farm be easier? Would I be happy? Would I not want to cry in my hooves every night?
“I think you’re absolutely right,” Blue Jeans admitted.
After that, Daisy and Gracie became Blue Jeans’ best friends and she was included in everything. She was no longer upset or tied into anymore friend drama. Blue Jeans learned that letting go of the bad can only open room for more good.
Moral: Letting go of bad friends can open the door for better friends.

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