There always seems to be a comparison going on whenever we talk to people we'd like to be friends with. They compare jobs, (some have the balls to even ask about salaries!), background, experience, academic excellence, skills, competencies, blah blah blah... seems like we're being interviewed (in a nice way but an interview nonetheless).
What's up with that?
The other day we met a new couple - a straight one actually - and the wife had rapid questions from give me your business card (to see where we're at in life to saying "your card says Partner, does that mean there's more than one Partner in your company?") Oh whatever. She ain't going to be a friend. The only reason we even bothered to chat was because her husband was a high school classmate of mine - not even a friend, just happened to be in the same batch - and we've reconnected through another classmate (this one a closer friend).
So we ask again, What's up with that?
Can we just talk about the weather or the value of friendship rather than the acquisitions we have? The obsession to money, property, power annoys us as we get older. Does it happen to you as well?
