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Take care of your work.

Don't put too much faith in relationship.

By Lamonica AguirrePublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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Started as a tabloid editor years ago. There is a big sister in my colleagues, writing is still in the stage of "the weather is so nice today, thousands of miles of clear sky floating white clouds".

Although the TEXT IS not as good as people, the elder sister has another director, goes to work every day out of half a foot thick address book, and began to dial the phone: "Zhang, long time no see, haha." President Lee, are you busy these days?

When we went out for a meeting, she always flapped her wings and greeted her to fly all over the field. It seemed that everyone knew each other. All the meetings were a reunion after a long separation.

Acquaintance for A long time, understand her way of friendship: A's wife has A cold, she will call C, ask C to help find D to register. When C's child is born, she will also help C contact E to buy cheap diapers. She spent a great deal of time taking care of the trifles of all her acquaintances, saving up for herself character and fellowship.

Her mantra is: Many friends make a way.

Since I shared a dormitory with her, I had the honor of being the closest road to her. There's no food. Eat at my place. No pads. Get them from me. You borrow me when you have nothing to wear.

One spring day, she said, "It's so hot today. I haven't bought sandals yet. Lend me a pair." "And took away my brand new pair of sandals. Wait for the spring to fall before the pair of shoes finally returned, I see, the sole has worn off.

Then one day, for the first time, she said, "Let me buy you dinner."

I thought the sun was rising in the west, but I followed her to the restaurant and found a big table of strangers sitting there.

Turned out to be her friend's friend and asked her friend, her friend notify her, and her to accommodate to grab me. I was embarrassed to join the dinner party, and on the way back, I gently told her that the next time would be better not to invite me to dinner.

After that, he left the city and cut off contact with her. Some time ago in the online encounter peer, the other side mentioned her.

Are you her friend, too? I asked. The other side smells speech snort: some people know all over the world, friends rotten street, or do her enemy figure to rare for expensive.

I just know, she mixed so many years, about to be nearly 40, still, rent a house, still did not marry, still haggle over pennies to take advantage, still, a company for a company to work. There was no progress in work, life, or writing. She had made so many friends and paved so many roads that no one could pull her into the sunshine.

It's not that she doesn't work hard, it's just that she's so superstitious about the power of relationships that if she spent her time in other ways, she might have made a difference.

A mediocre person for the greatest use of friendship, but is to nuke a meal to eat, nuke a piece of clothing to wear, take some trivial small advantage. Even if your friend is willing to help you out and recommend you for the CEO job, he or she needs to know something about you so that your performance doesn't embarrass him or her.

Many have only one way to go. It is self-reliant, skilled, hard-working, and self-sufficient. If having a friend to help you is the icing on the cake, it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't.

There's an online success rule that says, "Your income is the average income of 10 of your most connected friends." I don't know where these snobbish and arbitrary words come from, the forum micro-blog turned everywhere, and so many people believe it. So we are more and more utilitarian, sharpening the head to make friends than their own smart, capable, rich friends, to help their progress. But if this sentence is true, Ma Huateng, Ma Yun people go out can't casually make friends, so as not to be careful to know two poor ghosts, income was immediately pulled down half.

There is a certain truth to that, but you should not put the cart before the horse. More often than not, it is not the rich friends you know that make you rich and the excellent people you know that make you excellent. But after you have money, you fit into the group of rich people and become friends with rich people. If you're good, good people will naturally come to you. Friendship should stem from the mutual attraction of personal charm, personality, morality, and talent rather than deliberate attention and ingratiation. You and who together, and who meet, and who is predestined, God has first in the feasibility of the screen, this is birds of a feather flock together.

To borrow from Oscar Wilde, take care of your luxuries and your necessities will take care of themselves. What he means is that if you can afford luxuries, your necessities will take care of you and you don't have to worry about them.

I would say, take care of your work and your friends will take care of themselves. If we don't run for president, pyramid schemes, and insurance, then we don't need to expect much from our friends.

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