Keep your friends close

This article (excerpt below) is funny because it's true. I was wrong in the summing up of my feelings for B. He's not my nemesis. He's my archenemy. There are a few ladies I would consider for the position of nemesis. Thankfully, though, I left many of them behind in high school. To this day, I actively avoid situations where I think I might run into any of them.

HOW TO MAKE ENEMIES
As the accompanying essay makes clear, you'll need a nemesis and an archenemy if you wish to be successful in this world. The good news is, it's entirely possible that you already have each of these entities in your life; perhaps you just don't realize it (or maybe you can't tell them apart). As a public service, here are a few signs.

RECOGNIZING YOUR NEMESIS

• At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.
• You have punched this person in the face.
• If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give him a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that his marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.
• People who barely know both of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect that you profoundly dislike each other.
• If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.

RECOGNIZING YOUR ARCHENEMY

• Every time you talk to this person, you lie.
• If you meet someone who has the same first name as this person, you immediately like him less.
• The satisfaction you feel from your own success pales in comparison to the despair you feel at this person's triumphs, even if those triumphs are completely unrelated to your life.
• If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.
• Even if this person's girlfriend was a hateful bitch, you would sleep with her out of spite.