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Agony Aunt Sarah they should call me.  If anyone has a problem it ends up being mine soon enough too when it’s offloaded onto me.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always been one that loves helping people and offering my advice in the hope it will help.  I even pride myself on being quite good at it too if I’m quite honest.  There’s always a sense of satisfaction when you know you’ve helped someone with something that was weighing on their mind.  A problem shared is a problem halved as the saying goes.

The issue I have is when you’re told something in confidence that you know you should act upon but know its not your place to do so.  What do you do?  Go with your gut instincts or just be there for that person to lean on?  Do you risk losing that friendship and their confidence in you, or do what you thinks right?  Are you a proper friend if you speak out when they’ve trusted you?  Then again, are you a proper friend if you don’t?  Have you been told by them in the hope you speak out, or just to get it off their chest?

I have so many questions but absolutely no answers at all.  Sometimes I wish maybe if I was selfish people wouldn’t tell me what’s going on in their life and I wouldn’t be in the situation I am now.  That’s not me though, and I could never be like that either because then I wouldn’t be me!  So for the time being I’ll just carry on thinking things through and hopefully come up with the right decision in the end.  If that means betraying someone’s trust,  it doesn’t necessarily mean its the wrong thing to do… does it?