ExpertDabbler

I like those friends of mine. Friends who really believed I should do well financially. Life wasn’t all that great during those days.
They were keen on me realizing all my dreams. They presented their AMWAY business plan as a tool for realizing my dreams.

I have met a couple of them. The couple I met will be a couple soon.

It takes real guts to believe that you can make a difference to this world. I admire that.

But somehow they tend to oversimplify things.
They find it tough to believe that in life what you can really control is your response to an incident, not that incident itself.

They hang out in groups of their own. They have common fantastic dreams – a life complete with palatial mansions, own aircrafts, yachts and loads of free time to do whatever they want. Their mission in life is to make it like the Diamonds and Platinum of their business. Did I say business? I am sorry. Make that lives.

The kids are convinced that nobody but their fellow business plan dreamers can help them. They almost have no friends outside their business lives.
Parents, brothers and sisters are all people with too much negative energy.

I basically have no problem in them selling soaps, toiletries etc. If they don’t have a problem why should I have any? But somehow they have a problem with me. For them, you are either with them or against them. They see me as a loser.

I sometimes want to express myself the way I used to – with acid words.
But I don’t want to spoil their dreams. I guess its all part of growing up. Soon they will realize that Life is one magnificent song which presents a unique philosophy to each and every individual.
That their road to greatness is to pursue their dreams and philosophies with guts as individuals – not as groups.
That the best way to help friends is to assist them in realizing their dreams - material and spiritual. Not inducing them to join a business.

If I can make it after making the gravest blunders in education and career, why can’t they?

I will encourage my kid to join an MLM business. To just see how he copes with the peer pressure and also to let him see the money mindedness that pervades the world.
That is the kind of baptism i believe in. Baptism by fire.

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