10:57 a.m. - 2004-05-18
And You Wonder........
It appears as if my friend Keith is having some issues. In his latest entry he laments that he misses laughing with his friends and is evaluating how much of his life he is willing to give up for monetary success.

The key is, in my (no longer) humble opinion, work to LIVE, don't live to work.

It goes much deeper than that really.

In the beginning we are good and pure with the best of intentions.Then we hurt and ache at the hands of others.

It was at this moment that I vowed NEVER to allow the insincerity and callous behaviors of others to change who I am.

Many people lose themselves here. They become only a fraction of who they are or could be. They allow the betterness of another to poison their heart. They start rationalizing their own hateful behavior as if reciprocal hate is somehow less toxic to the world. They belittle others to feel better about themselves. They become selfish and calloused at the hands of others.

And then they wonder, at the end of the day why they no longer have any real friends.

Because at some point they gave up on building real relationships. It was easier to form shallow, superficial alliances than to become truly involved with the souls around them.

And then they cry for something real again.

You should never throw it away in the first place.

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