if asked about life, it has been good so far. many things happened for the past few weeks but its all good for now, life has to move on in regardless of what.
last month i've met up with a couple of long lost friends, they were part of the mlm sort of groups or either that in the invesment line. I've know about their occupation, heck it, i dont care what you work as because you are still a friend to me at the end of the day but be sure not to ''generate'' your sales profit from friendship - thats all i'm asking for.
I think friends should not look at friendship as a way of a truthful test if your friend decided to get an endownment plan from you or join you at your high profile marketing network or not, to me it's always my decision to do what i want and not because i'm your friend and drama the way.
I know i have myself to blame when i met with them (both separate occasions), because the intention was truly obvious. what gets into my nerves the most is the way how they utilized friendship as an object of expanding their business. BULLSHIT to that. I dont expect myself to do such a thing and i expect nothing less from my friends. Why did i meet with them ? because i thought why not just a drink and chat up some past, perhaps meeting up with me wasn't their intention to preach about their sales. Guess i can never live safe with my own instincts because it was so wrong.
The first time i went out with this senior from college, she said she has to make a trip to Uptown for photo shoot and asked if i could accompany her after our drink. We went to this second floor office lot and for cows sake -it's a MLM company. She brought me into different rooms and at last i couldn't take it anymore - i had myself thinking, what good is a friend who can't tell me the truth and this wasn't the second time..it has been countless. I couldn't bother if i would lose her as a friend because the fact is that she never treated me as a friend genuinely. I told her i'm making a move and never thank her for the trip.
The next day, i met with this friend whom i've know for 10years, during my schooling days we had much fun and yes she helped me more than i could asked for. Perhaps i'm being ungrateful to her good deeds, call me a bitch then. . at this point i couldn't care less because i live for a reason and not to pay debts. geddit ? She works for an investment company, so when i knew i'm meeting her for lunch and drinks, i was really excited, the time and opportunity to hang out with old mates are really seldom to come by. While having our drinks, she said she has a plan to share with me, so the sharing rolls. It was quite a pushy situation because she was quite insisting that i get an investment plan for my future, i truly understand her worries for my future but i never expected that it will be such a pushy thing. Plus the plan wasn't as truthful as it turns out to be, honestly i was pretty interested with the plan since it's somewhere along my budget. Once i shared with my mom, she told me to forgo the plan because there were some hidden elements which this friend of mine did not shared honestly with me. anyway, when it comes to $$ who's the better consultant other than my mom and dad. Somehow this friend of mine seems to forgotten that my dad was once an insurance agent who is good at it too. Who's fooling who now ??
I told her i'm not going on with the plan, messages after messages poured in justifying that i SHOULD go on with the plan for my future...yak yak yak. Till the extend that she quoted upon our 10years friendship and draw situtations like : since you were to spend RM6-7 a day for something, why not save it with the plan...yada yada. she even used the phrase '' wasing your money for something...''.
Sigh sigh sigh, as if work has not been enough and now my friends are turning into money sucking machines ? It's purely my own life to live on my own determination and not on someone's advises on i should be successful to start a MLM business and not working for others. Hey, what's wrong with working for companies ? You can have your fair share of your enjoyment of being a boss but it does not applies to everyone around you. I like things steady at times, i like getting paid by others because it's a sort of comfort feeling. Who doesn't think about their future ? Everyone does, we work because we yearn for a better living let it be a luxurious one or a simple one. But i for one don't want to work like a cow and put all my money into a saving/ investment plan, what happens to pampering myself ? what happens to awarding myself ? what happens to living happily ? If all i care is to work and dump all my money to forgo my life ...then please shoot me..please do it. You know how sucky it is when someone tells you that, i feel offended because how i manage my money is my problem and not up to a certain so and so to tell me how to do the math.
Speaking of insurance, some just don't understand the phrase '' i've already gotten myself an insurance''. They will still flush you with their dozen of plans... please la, if you don't want people to dodge off when they see you from far, stop being a pain in the ass. Surpsingly these people are from church, hello... see also never say hi, say hi also respond like a stranger...all of the sudden these people decided to jump on you and ''be'' your friend. Call you la, text you la...Good Job. Wow, all of a sudden there are many people who are concern about my money.... -_-lll
FYI, i studied Tourism and i did my internship at a few agencies but i'm now working in a different field, some people are too deaf to listen when i said i'm not working in travel agency and still giving info to find out how much does a air ticket cost from KUL- Afghanistan. You are busy with your missionary work, well...i'm busy with mine. You are a somewhat leader i used to look up to but now i don't care a sight of you because afterall you did nothing much than occassionaly being ignorant of me so why should i bother helping much ? And a few hi and bye followed by a few heart stabbing words from you...please check the price ticket of KUL- FLY YOUR OWN KITE.
Enough said, friends are more than just a favour, friendships value are higher than your monthly sales, friendship is priceless. You should never call your friend if :
* You are greedy for sales and force your friends to get your sales close.
* Pushing your friends to join MLM even though your friend has told you many times '' I'm not interested ''
* Need something and too lazy to find out. Your laziness is not your friends convenience and responsibility.
If you never treat someone as friend, then don't try to be friendly with an intention. You know me when i was young at school/ college/church, i might be blur that time. But growth also means maturity... i have a brain if you dont know, i guess what these people are lacking are their EQ's and sense of sensitivity.
signing off with a smile on a face and empty stomach...need to munch.. yum yum.
