WHY YOU NEED TO DUMP FRIENDSHIP FOR ALLIANCE

We all have been made to believe hitherto that good friends are the best things that can happen to anyone while enemies should be kept at bay. This is erroneous and after a long ponder, I came to a hard conclusion (which I expect many to oppose) that friendship and enemyship (warning: use this word with discretion) has equal but opposite effect. Opposite in the sense that one brings illusion of joy and happiness while the other brings illusion of hate and anger. I often liken the two attributes to Esau and Jacob because both come with justifiable reasons to make you feel the way you do.
However, both come with costly consequences which makes me choose alliance over them. Alliance is a symbiotic relationship where two parties come together to achieve a goal with no strings attached. Alliance doesn't always require trust rather mutual understanding and respect; more of a mutualistic kind of relationship. Some of the reasons why I prefer alliance over friendship includes:

1) Time
An enemy makes you spend time planning revenge or thinking of how to avoid them while a friend steals your time by needing you to be always there for them against often against your convenience. An average Nigerian youth with internet access spends nothing less than five to ten hours everyday on social networks. We all know the age-long mantra 'Time is money' right? It is no wonder we have many bling-bling-parading dejected youths in our society today. An alliance on the other hands only needs you to keep in touch with them for as long as whatever business between the both of you lasts.

2) Wrong judgement
Friendship and enemyship comes with a lot of sentiments. They make you think from your heart rather than from your brain and we know how costly that could be. Some people have ditched the best brains for mediocre because of hate resulting din a very poor outcome while others have been grossly mismanaged in their businesses but 'friendship' leaves them tongue tied from taking action. It is only in friendship we hear of betrayal. If you are not satisfied with an alliance, you seek legal redress immediately.

3) Missed opportunities
I have a friend who refused to attend the first graduation of the former school he taught because of a feud between him and the proprietress. It turned out that the graduation was huge, attracting dignitaries to whom he would have tried selling his musical talent. Some others have refused looking up for better jobs because according to them, they don't want to hurt the friendship between them and their current employers leaving them in perpetual social stagnation.

4) Loss of freedom
A person with lots of enemies naturally would be cautious of where he/she goes. Likewise, a person with lots of friends would be very careful of what he/she does and goes because of what the friends may think or say. Either ways, both are restricted consciously or unconsciously.

AFTER READING THIS, DO YOU STILL THINK FRIENDSHIP IS THE BEST FORM OF RELATIONSHIP AND DO YOU THINK YOUR FRIENDS ARE ANY BETTER THAN YOUR ENEMIES?