If a certain person has been helping you everytime you're in deep water, that's true friendship being involved. But when you always take advantage of the generosity of that person that's something already. Another (same) thing's happening again that this person has already been a pain in the as# lately. Pag may kailangan she has all the reason to be felt...but when you've already bailed her out...naku nawawala na...ni ha ni ho di mo na maramdaman ang presence niya. How do we call that? Then out of the blue lulutang na naman at hihingi ng tulong...sometimes nakakasawa din eh. Lalo't she doesn't know anything about gratitude. And capitalizing on friendship is the worse thing here. She always say that friends don't leave each other...now am really pissed off with her bad character...so worse of being a friend per se...she really is annoying na. A fair-weather friend? I just don't know how to call that. What I know is that we are playing roles. She is always the friend in need and I am always the friend indeed. When I read Paulo Coelho's By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept it says something about playing roles...
My favorite part...just read!
"Don't be frightened, Pilar. Don't just fall into playing a role."
I didn't want my problem with the old man to become a problem with him, so I
tried to stay calm. "I don't know what you mean by 'playing a role.'"
"Some people always have to be doing battle with someone, sometimes even with
themselves, battling with their own lives. So they begin to create a kind of
play in their head, and they write the script based on their frustrations."
"I know a lot of people like that. I know just what you mean."
"But the worst part is that they cannot present the play by themselves," he
continued. "So they begin to invite other actors to join in.
"That's what that fellow outside was doing. He wanted revenge for something, and
he chose us to play a part. If we had accepted his restrictions, we'd be
regretting it. We would have been defeated. We would have agreed to participate
in his miserable life and in his frustrations.
"The man's aggression was easy to see, so it was easy for us to refuse the role
he wanted us to play. But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims,
when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to
agree, to offer advice, to participate."
"Be careful. When you join in that game, you always wind up losing."
For life is not just about how we will live comfortably, or just about the good and the pleasurable things life may bring us, as we all hope it to be. But it's how we deal with rough roads, molehills and even the mountains each of us will have to trudge as we go through life; with a lot shimmying when edges are sharp, while others can go cherry-picking. But what is important is to be armed with great deal of faith and courage to face life's trial head on...
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Nakaka irrritate mga ganyang tao. Taguan mo kaya?
ReplyDeleteNaku Kap kung alam mo lang kung gano ako magpakatimpi...ang wrinkles...eh napuna ko she's taking advantage of my generosity. Akala kasi me kaban ako ng pera...laging please help me...naku noh, ayoko ng magamit pa...sermonan ko nga! Sa susunod dedma na...grrrr...buti nga outlet ko ang blogging...lol...naibubuhos ko lahat d2... :)
ReplyDeleteEh ako pa naman di pala hingi ng help kung kaya ko din lang...d ba? Parang obligation ang pagtulong! Naku kaya ako kahit kagawad di mananalo...at ayoko pls...masakit sa ulo ang manungkulan...kaya wag u pabayaan ang vanidosa title mo ha...kool ka lang! Basta keep smilin' para beauty palage...thanks sa dalaw mo ha...Kapitana!
ReplyDeleteSana mabasa niya toh...ng matauhan siya!
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