True friends
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- Upon realizing your strengths those friends who have good intentions with you will help you further improve your areas of strength by supporting your course, cheering you as you make progress and advising you on areas requiring further improvement.
- However there are those friends who are not genuine but due to their interest in whatever you possess they remain close to you. Any strength in you they carefully analyse it and try to implement it somewhere else or even secretly pass such information to your rivals.
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries………..…… Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human beings derive happiness from associating with each other for various reasons among them family ties, learning from each other, protection and sometimes competition. The closer their interests are the more they keep eye on each other.
As ageless as personal interests so are friendships they do not have boundaries of ages a young person may be friendly to a fellow young person, youthful or aged person.
There is more of opening up when two or more people are in friendship. They share ideas and sacrifice resources for the benefits of their colleagues and that is one of the tests of friendships.
Interests keep changing from time to time so do friendships so you may find that those you were appealing to yesterday may not necessarily be the same today. When your future looks bright many people would like to associate with you regardless of your current status.
Many are times when it becomes difficult to isolate such people as their actions are aimed at showing that they are happy with you and are willing to support you at all times.
There are other people who would only support you provided they benefit from your current situation. They are straight forward if no direct benefit no interest.
The closeness among friends helps them to understand both the strengths and weaknesses of their colleagues. Not everything you disclose to your friends but in their own analysis and projections they are able to fill in the dots.
Upon realizing your strengths those friends who have good intentions with you will help you further improve your areas of strength by supporting your course, cheering you as you make progress and advising you on areas requiring further improvement.
However there are those friends who are not genuine but due to their interest in whatever you possess they remain close to you. Any strength in you they carefully analyse it and try to implement it somewhere else or even secretly pass such information to your rivals.
To conceal their jealousy for your success they will show excitement for your success and even enquire from you about the possible factors which could have contributed towards it.
Any weakness they detect in you they will not inform you rather they will take it as a secret weapon of destroying you. If they have competing projects that they are carrying out they would try to avoid such mistakes to avoid draw backs. They would also be quick to alert your rivals on your areas of weakness.
To them life is a competition and provided they think that they are more privileged than you their hearts will always be at merry. They will try to show kindness to you by advising you about their personal progress on issues that do not matter much to them but remain mum on what they hold dearly in their lives. They may keep offering to you gifts without stating the reason for doing so.
In the fullness of time such people are unable to keep the pace of success in their lives constant or increase it as they veer off the course due to their failure to follow their natural paths instead they imitate what others are doing so they lack genuineness and natural drive in their new courses of life.
There is natural selection not only among people but also among all creatures including animals however no two or more creatures are exactly the same everyone is gifted slightly differently even among identical twins.
We should be ready to follow our natural paths if we want to remain relevant. Blessings may be of unequal amount but all are helpful and sufficient for every one of us. In your natural path regardless of surrounding factors you will always have a way to survive even without much effort.
Let us learnt to appreciate our gifting as well as those of others and respect both to ensure mutual respect, long term success, innovation and genuineness.
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