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Lifestyles of the New "Rich"
11-30-2010, 04:16 PM
My best guess as the reason why your friends don't want to be around you is because you are shoving you perceived success in their faces. There are a lot of people out there that don't think your new lifestyle are anything special and when all you do is talk about yourself (i.e. your TOTALLY AWESOME new life) it comes off as really egotistical and you are boring them. From the way a few of you have been describing this problem it sounds like it has more to do with you showing off, talking only about yourself, and not really acting like a friend. It's not necessarily that they are jealous or that you are threatening.
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Lifestyles of the New "Rich"
11-30-2010, 11:14 PM
My old high school used to have a lot of nerds that couldn't talk about anything other than academics. It made me realize how important it is to find your own path and not be a sheep in society's social conditioning farm.
Most people think they deserve the best for doing the ordinary. I have to realize the only way to live life on your own terms is by grabbing it by the throat.
A lot of people work hard, but not smart. I need to work both smart and hard if I want to live a lifestyle where I can have multiple homes and experience the whole world.
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Lifestyles of the New "Rich"
02-09-2011, 08:41 PM
VP what you describe is simply hating on the part of your friends. It takes a true friend to be happy for your successes and I find this is the minority. If I experience some success/good news I'm now careful who I share this with as I've learned I don't get the reaction I expect from many friends by way of facial expression which doesn't hide anything
i..e they will say 'that's great' while they look like they've been hit in the solar plexus...