Here’s the thing about meeting people after many many years: they are anchored to a version of you that may no longer define you. They are convinced that you owe it to them to follow-through on your earlier #life plans.
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I met an ex-colleague after more than half-a-decade. It was like any such meeting. Fake warmth to masquerade stocktaking about who did better in the lost time. Offering pleasantries only enough to veil judging and pontificating. And then banter.
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“Dude, howsoever you want to frame it, you’ve done a #career suicide. I am sure you know it but won’t care to admit.”
“The only thing I know for sure is what I have been able to avoid: suicide by career.”
“Well, at least you’ve still got your defensive reasoning skills.”
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“The only thing I know for sure is what I have been able to avoid: suicide by career.”
“Well, at least you’ve still got your defensive reasoning skills.”
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“Ha! Here’s another one for you then – we all have strength enough to bear failure; either someone else’s or our own. It is the weight of others’ success that crushes us. But only till the time we don’t realize that life is a single-player game.”
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#ODW1
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#ODW1
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