Don’t grade friendships on a hierarchical scale. Don’t value people based on some external indicator of status. Don’t take a competitive view of your social life. There are very few rules I carry around with me every day. Don’t trade up is one of them, and I truly can’t tell you how many seemingly complicated situations it resolved into clarity and fairness. I am grateful to you for that.One of the lessons learned.
Plus... handmade impromptu gifts, like a little chair made out of that wire that goes around a champagne cork.
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Don’t value people based on some external indicator of status.
My ex values people almost solely on external indicators of status, female doctors preferred. Once I made a less than glowing comment about a woman, and my ex replied, in all sincerity, "She drives a Lexus!"
She doesn't have many friends and doesn't understand why.
An honorable way of Galt?
The list takes on a virtuous character.
Good advice.
And those people who "traded up"...did they really trade up? Only in their shallow minds.
People are not commodities.
Rakoff: Don't trade up.
Friend of Dave: What a great life lesson. By the way, I've been invited to visit a leper colony, care to join me?
Rakoff: Uh...pass.
edutcher said...
People are not commodities.
No they're not.
Say. You want to be a buddy and help me dig a hole?
"People are not commodities."
In the context of our present economic system, that's all we are.
Robert Cook said...
"People are not commodities."
In the context of our present political system, that's all we are.
fixed that for you.
Rusty,
Same difference.
I only know so much about Chip... but this guy sounds familiar.
I was working this morning and had no time to say this when I thought of it.
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