Jul 26
Great Conversation: More than Just a Pretty Face
written by an outside contributor for desiexclusives.com
Throughout our life, we converse with thousands of different people. Many are tedious conversations about school or work and others are simply about a specific topic such as sports. But there are those select conversations we have with a certain person whether they a close friend, family, or just a new acquaintance that we remember for years. A conversation that is so engrossing and deep, in which you really get to know a person. To me, deep conversation is one of those priceless moments in life because there really are a select few we can really have it with.
Many conversations we have in life with our family, friends, or acquaintances are often about work and other boring topics. Unless you are an FBI agent, an astronaut, or an athlete, more often than not, conversations about work are boring and uninteresting. I know that everyone discusses work since it’s such a big part of a person’s life, but if that is all you can talk about with someone, you know that you aren’t making a great connection. Having a deep conversation is an opportunity for you to really open yourself to someone. This allows you to the take the next step with someone. An acquaintance you meet here and there can become a close friend, or your girlfriend that you currently date can become your wife.
I believe that great conversation is something we take for granted and overlook. We meet so many people in our life that we become friends with and lose touch or become distant. Maybe they were friends that we partied with in college, but never really connected with on a personal level. The people that we can have deep conversations with are people that we can truly connect with and share our thoughts and feelings. Through deep conversation, we can really learn to care or love a person. With regards to friendship, such conversation is a great way to realize who your true friends are. True friends are able to open up to each other and not judge each other. They are not going to call you just to ask if you want to go out, but they will call to converse and see how you are.
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Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
if your best friends are alcoholics, drug addicts and hustlers..you have to look in the mirror and see what you have become…we cant choose our relatives but we can choose our friends..
and on the other hand if your best friends are basically sober and industrious you are on the path to financial and personal success…tho times are tough just now they will improve and your clear headed doggedness at seeking success will pay off in that really great job with a future….
the bottom line is…birds of a feather flock together…winners in one flock and losers in the other…sure every loser knows a winner or two and every winner knows a loser or two..but look at who you spend the majority of your time with and what you do together..that’s the flock you chose..
clement stone did have a point
Your analysis is shortsighted. Just because you hang out with a rougher crowd does not mean you will turn into them. You COMPLETELY discount the idea of self-control.
Also, you can only learn so much by hanging around those with the same attitudes and beliefs as you.
What if you inspire one of these underachievers to get their act together and change their lives for the better? That singular, selfless action might be more valuable than any financial success you speak of.
The point is that if you walk like a duck and quack like a duck you are not the ugly duckling swan to be..you are a duck..
p.s. you can inspire by example and positive advice true…but you cannot inspire by doing heavy drugs and hustling to get the money for drugs…
is pot a heavy drug?
are u calling the kettle black?
Pot is LEGAL
then it aint heavy
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” -Bob Marley