RE: When friends betray me... / Wenn mich Freunde betrügen
The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Friendship, and mates, is better without trust. Trust destroyed easily a hurts but that does not that friends mates do not have spectacular qualities or that their friend, which is you, does not have spectacular wonderful qualities that will last a lifetime, maybe longer?
I wrote about the enemy of one's enemy is a friend because I watched this TV show called, The Unit, a covert military unit. The Sargeant Major makes a deal in Lebanon with a group of Christian Fighters after a Hezbollah Commander, and once the E-9 captures the H.Com, the Christian group wants him alive so they can torture the H.Com so they try to kill the E-9 after he walked into the Hezbollah fortress and got all of them. The E-9 took all of them out too and dragged along the H.Com... out of Lebanon.
Friends are great and wonderful and I have had a lot of them but at least half of them are moved on to the next world. Yep, already.
The belief of perfection in oneself leads to the belief others are perfect and they are not. Most people face inestimable obstacles and sometimes do not survive them.