Rivals

[factboy01]

Well I ' m having some long , enduring friendship issues. My friend and I met in 7th grade and we seemed like we were becoming good friends . Then, 8th grade year he changed , I guess you could say . We seemed to have become rivals ( who were nearly always against each other) . We ' ve been really sporadic when it comes to even talking. Now, everything seems awkward talking at all . In my opinion , this isn 't a friendship , it 's a frenemy. Many times I ' ve referenced this as similar to the " frenemyship" between professional tennis players Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic. It's been a war of on and off silence , it 's a tug - of- war . We go back to back. I want it stop . In my opinion, this started because of him, but we're both to blame. The thing is I also feel at fault. I feel as if I acted immaturely back in 8 th grade. I don't want to talk with becauseI don' t know him well plus what doI say ?I have two reasons why he may have acted this way . We' re both the same ethnicity , which is Navajo. We 've been ranked in the top 35 of our class . We ' re smart . We' re the two highest Navajo guys in our class . Ibelieve it has to do with the fact we 're Navajos and we' re very highly ranked with no one else. In ways , we' re extremely similar yet it ' s those similarities that drive us away. What should I do? I reasons wish to resolve this super-ultra complex friendship. I want us to at least be good friends not strangers whom so happenly know each other and randomly conversely hardly. I can't stand this tension anymore. It's been three years of this still going, seemingly. Please help. I really need assistance.