I have currently befriended a gentleman who has experienced both sides of life over the past 10 to 15 years ,it was through a family friend who asked him to come and share a few problems with me , ease his mind a little ,and reassure him that not everyone turns their back when the going gets tough .
It's amazing how many friends gather around us when we become successful , invites pour in from every Tom , Dick & Sally , we receive offers of every kind , we start to leave our true friends behind the ones we grew up with , thankfully there still is lots of successful people who respect their real friends from the past and insist on sharing their good fortune in life with them , back to the story now .
Let's refer to my friend as Colin.....Colin had built a successful buisness for himself , money started to pour in , new home , cars , holidays . He had the same girlfriend (call her Alice ) since school a very nice and delightful lady , they are both 30 years old at present , Alice was'nt one for the high life she would prefer to cuddle up with Colin and watch TV rather than take in a party or such like , she did like her holidays ( don't we all ), Colin was always persistent on going to events , events that he did'nt need to attend , Alice did attend some of the gatherings with him but she really did'nt enjoy them , she disliked the falseness she saw in people , she tried explaining this to Colin but he thought it was just another get out excuse , Colin does admit that it was at this time things started going downhill for him .
He attended parties and events on his from this point onwards , he said he was glad to get away from Alice at this period , she had turned into a party poop , what he should have realised that Alice was never a party goer and respected her wishes , but the usual scenario happened... starts going out on his lonesome ,
Boy meets Girl ... employs her...works late...attends buisness meetings very regular...and looses sight of Alice... he has admitted that through his affair he had lost sight of his life , Alice had moved out , his work was going down fast , his new work friends were nowhere to be found ,his only friend was the booze , he thought he could bury his head in the bottle and life would be great again , he eventually lost his home / work / wife, thankfully no kids were involved , he said thoughts of suicide were becoming more and more regular in his head , he lost touch with his true friends through his own stupidness and possibly pride ,
a few of my friends came from a poor background and i was too proud to introduce such people into my new modern and stylish lifestyle i had ," What a Plonker i became " he said out loud .
I'ts now six month we have been chatting and things have started to get back on track for him , I've had a few chats with Alice and hopefully through time a reunion could be in store , he has started at the bottom again , a few new contracts is lined up for him ,his old friends are back in his life again even helping him out with his new ventures , he realises what he had in life was so hard to get but so easy to loose , his main aim in life currently is to prove to Alice that no matter what we acheive in life ,it's still empty without the right person at our side , i am quite confident that things will turn out good for both of them .
I know this will relate to a few who read this , it's so hard to get to where we want in life and yet so simple to return to where we began .
Mr Life