Ya know this whole song and dance I’m doing right now isn’t new. The circumstances are the same, the characters have different names. In a lot of ways it feels a lot like “Save by The Bell: The New Class”. Theres the guy who’s suppose to be just like Zack Morris, another one like A.C Slater, and so on and so forth. The same situations, same story lines, nothing changes. The difference is when this happens in real life you have the convenience of foresight gained from the last time around.
People’s motivations are typically easy to read in business. Everyone is after advancement, and money, and most have very little regard for other issues that can help them in this area. This isn’t about business though, this is about life. You know who you’re friends are, because they are the ones who stick around when you are down and out. You know who you can trust because they don’t turn and run when things get tough. Trust is something typically earned, and some give it away too loosely, and pay the price for it. Others don’t give it away at all and live lonely lives because of it.
In the last couple of weeks, several of my relationships have been tested out like this, and some of the people that fell by the wayside surprised me. Honestly they probably didn’t, but thats the way things go sometimes. Beyond that, those exact same people recently popped back up out of nowhere, with motivations as clear as day. Friendship is never something you barter with. Life is far too short to deal with those who are disingenuous. At some point soon I’ll probably stop writing in generalities, and deal specifically with whats going on.
