Eyes Wide Shut
Many of you that know me well have heard me call myself a closet social scientist. In fact, my theories on life are based on listening and watching other people, their problems and how I would deal with them. Very few of my theories are formed by my life's experience. Well, sports fan in the last week, I have put a few of my biggest theories to the test.
One of my theories is that I will fight with you not for you. It sounds backwards but hear me out. In my mind, if you are with me then there is no one that will ever treat you better than I can or will. So if you find someone that does you should be with them. I won't fight for you. However, if you have a problem then I have a problem. I will stand shoulder to shoulder and fight with you.
Theory number two states that people will do anything if they think that no one will EVER find out. My example is that you can take an educated, successful women from Utah attending a conference in New Orleans. On a whim, she walks down Bourbon street, hears the calls from the balconies and all the sudden this women is flashing strangers for a some plastic beads that are worth 15 cents. This women teaches school, has three kids and a loving husband..... What is she thinking? That no one will ever find out.
So here I am faced with both of these theories at once. It's hard to imagine that our lives can be so thrown by events that in normal circumstances would never occur, not even be thought about, but if you add an outside ingredient to the recipe then the picture is framed differently.
What I have concluded after hours and hours of thought is that friends that followed a common code as brothers bound by service evaporates after someone is not counting on them day after day. I live by I do not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those among us that do. Unfortunately, someone that I thought lived by that code chose to take something from me that I can't ever get back.
I don't know what to do
One of my theories is that I will fight with you not for you. It sounds backwards but hear me out. In my mind, if you are with me then there is no one that will ever treat you better than I can or will. So if you find someone that does you should be with them. I won't fight for you. However, if you have a problem then I have a problem. I will stand shoulder to shoulder and fight with you.
Theory number two states that people will do anything if they think that no one will EVER find out. My example is that you can take an educated, successful women from Utah attending a conference in New Orleans. On a whim, she walks down Bourbon street, hears the calls from the balconies and all the sudden this women is flashing strangers for a some plastic beads that are worth 15 cents. This women teaches school, has three kids and a loving husband..... What is she thinking? That no one will ever find out.
So here I am faced with both of these theories at once. It's hard to imagine that our lives can be so thrown by events that in normal circumstances would never occur, not even be thought about, but if you add an outside ingredient to the recipe then the picture is framed differently.
What I have concluded after hours and hours of thought is that friends that followed a common code as brothers bound by service evaporates after someone is not counting on them day after day. I live by I do not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those among us that do. Unfortunately, someone that I thought lived by that code chose to take something from me that I can't ever get back.
I don't know what to do
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