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The Coronet · 03-08-2009, 02:35 PM

I am disturbed by something that i dont know how to resolve in my heart.

Given the nature of my life and the industry I work in I have found so called friends to be very two faced, and untrustworthy. They will do what they need to get where they want and if they are being friendly towards you chances are they are using you for their own gain. Basically they are fake.

Its not easy to say stay away from these people because they are everywhere in your face and they make sure you know about all they're business.

The problem is not so much having to deal with them, its the feeling i have towards them. I dont like them and I dont want them to do well because i dont think they deserve it. I am very disturbed about having this feeling towards anyone. I hate to think badly of people I want to have nothing but love and respect for my fellow man and it causes me pain to even have to discuss with other people, "I dont think you should work with these folk they are not to be trusted." I dont want to bad mouth anyone.

The other problem is that because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get to where they want, means that they are becoming increasingly more successful. Then I start to wonder weather I should work with them, thus making me equally two faced as the only reason id be interacting with them is to get where I want. The fact is though, even if my head thinks its a good plan my heart doesnt let me and i cant bring myself to do any more things for them after finding out their true nature.

Maybe my disturbed feeling reflects my fears that you have to be a manipultive @*£@ to get anywhere in this business, or my own fear that they are somehow better than me and its a bit of jealously...but somehow that doesnt add up because i have lots of friends I know are far superior to me in skill but they are good honest folk and Im sincerely happy for their success. I think it might be that actually that i dont think they are better than me and yet they are getting somewhere and perhaps thats whats really distrubing me.

Well sorry for spewing out all my thoughts, id love to get to the bottom of this because it really is bothering me. Please feel free to share your thoughts.

Thanks so much for you time if you have read this all!

03-08-2009, 02:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
The Coronet Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 105	untrustworthy fake friends I am disturbed by something that i dont know how to resolve in my heart. Given the nature of my life and the industry I work in I have found so called friends to be very two faced, and untrustworthy. They will do what they need to get where they want and if they are being friendly towards you chances are they are using you for their own gain. Basically they are fake. Its not easy to say stay away from these people because they are everywhere in your face and they make sure you know about all they're business. The problem is not so much having to deal with them, its the feeling i have towards them. I dont like them and I dont want them to do well because i dont think they deserve it. I am very disturbed about having this feeling towards anyone. I hate to think badly of people I want to have nothing but love and respect for my fellow man and it causes me pain to even have to discuss with other people, "I dont think you should work with these folk they are not to be trusted." I dont want to bad mouth anyone. The other problem is that because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get to where they want, means that they are becoming increasingly more successful. Then I start to wonder weather I should work with them, thus making me equally two faced as the only reason id be interacting with them is to get where I want. The fact is though, even if my head thinks its a good plan my heart doesnt let me and i cant bring myself to do any more things for them after finding out their true nature. Maybe my disturbed feeling reflects my fears that you have to be a manipultive @*£@ to get anywhere in this business, or my own fear that they are somehow better than me and its a bit of jealously...but somehow that doesnt add up because i have lots of friends I know are far superior to me in skill but they are good honest folk and Im sincerely happy for their success. I think it might be that actually that i dont think they are better than me and yet they are getting somewhere and perhaps thats whats really distrubing me. Well sorry for spewing out all my thoughts, id love to get to the bottom of this because it really is bothering me. Please feel free to share your thoughts. Thanks so much for you time if you have read this all!