While I can’t necessarily recall a time where I felt like anonymous, I have had times where even though I won in the end it came at a cost, Just like how Anonymous ended up winning custody over her daughter despite the trauma and debt she got with it. The story that I can think of that most closely resembles what anonymous went through was between me and an old friend who I don’t speak with anymore. I was friends with this kid for a few years during middle school and we had gotten very close around the 6th grade. I and he were pretty close as we went to school together and hung out all the time. I had a lot of trust in him and he had even been to my house on multiple occasions. As time went on I had started to realize that valuable things in my house were going missing (money, jewelry, some small electronics/ videogames). At first, I had just thought it was misplaced items but then I realized that things would really only disappear when that friend came over. This made me really anxious because I had never had to deal with something like this before and at first I didn’t know what to do or how to react to the situation. Eventually, I confronted him and he denied everything, but eventually, after prying and convincing evidence he fessed up and told me he sold everything he stole from me just because he “felt like it”. I decided to end the friendship and even though it felt good to clear up that problem and cut out a problematic person in my life, it still hurt as I considered him a good friend and it didn’t feel right getting shamed for making accusations even though I was in the right. I decided that having people like that in my life was not any good for me so to this day I never got back in touch with him. I assumed that it was somewhat of an embarrassing thing to be caught stealing from your friend so I assume he wouldn’t want to talk to me anyway. While at first, I was a bit jumpy after that situation, it was not enough to hurt my trust in other people. I think it’s a poor decision to act overly cautious due to the acts of a single person. Even though that happened to me once I believe that I have changed the type of people I hang around overtime to people I can confidently trust
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