On the contrary, I like to challenge everything, “because it’s like that” or “because someone said so” is never good enough of an answer for me, I need to find the root and rationale behind everything… This is my strength and weakness.

Optimization is not just on my website for me, it’s an integrand part of my life, the scariest time for my wife was when I stopped and then said: “I got an idea!”, or ask “Why…?”
.-= Nicolas Prudhon@SEO Help´s last blog ..Introduction to IP Delivery =-.

I have often talked about this with both friends and family and some of it might have been because of the way I laid it out but all of them were very…. well… “not pleased” with my thoughts

So now I am no longer discussing it with people but merely acting on it.

The loss became a concerned more because of “society conditioning” than personal feelings. We learn things like we should value this kind of friendship (or something else), etc… for this reason we are reluctant to change.

The truth is that I don’t miss my friend or his friendship at all, this may sounds very cold but it’s the truth, I have found new friends with who “friendship” is more than just a word.
.-= Nicolas Prudhon@SEO Help´s last blog ..Introduction to IP Delivery =-.

I assumed that you had probably experienced this first hand in some way and I can related to how it feels to loose a long time friend. However I have also reached the conclusion that because you have a long term relationship doesn’t mean that you should keep it. It is kinda like a marriage. It thinks are not working out and you can’t seem to get it back on track, then get out. It is better for both parties and it is the same with “friends” that you only argue with.

Thanks for sharing the story.

Great post bud!

They say you’re an average of five of your friends. How true! You’ve elaborated it in great details here.

Way to go!
Swastik
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Actually I also experienced this first hand too, and unfortunately or fortunately, I have lost a 23 years old friendship in the process.

That friend was a firm believer in poverty, not saving money, spending it all, and that having money is bad, and people having money are bad, talking about business is stupid, etc…

Being a natural born entrepreneur, my way of thinking is it absolute contradiction, I didn’t want to lose the friendship, but the natural course of even lead us to that junction when we got our last argument a couple of years ago, since then I have become one of the “enemy” because I have money.

He blames me for the way I spend money in a shopping afternoon that it would take him a year to get with his low pay job; he’s constantly complaining about how stupid it is to have money… but always was borrowing from me…

His vision is also that you don’t need money to help people, and that’s true, but I also think that you can help MORE people when you have money than when you don’t.

As you can guess my discussions with him never were helping me improve my life but instead tend to have a negative impact, be it on my moral itself.

It’s sad that I lost this childhood friend, but in the end, my life is for the better today, and my life as well as my family is what I’m responsible for.
.-= Nicolas Prudhon@SEO Help´s last blog ..Introduction to IP Delivery =-.