What do you do...?

What do you do when a close friend of yours (in fact a very close friend of yours) ditches you for another common friend? Ok, first of all there is no love factor involved here and this story is based on professional decisions. The ditching was done precisely on the basis of ... Actually even I don’t know the reason. I would like to think it this way that the favouritism was done based on calibre and/or ease of ‘logistics’. If it was done solely on the basis of calibre then in my defence I would like to say that I don’t think the bias should have been there. However I would definitely give my friend the benefit of doubt that he did it for the ease with which things fell into place and he could not include me even though he did remember my name and that I would have appreciated had he included me.

So what will you do if the same thing happens to you? Let’s not get into the petty details of the incident, but I am sure that we have all had similar incidents in our lives wherein we needed to jostle a few thoughts when we felt ignored by the most unexpected person. As for me, I always move on and there are no harsh feelings involved. I know my friend did it for professional reasons and our personal ties will not be hampered. In fact I should think of it this way – why on earth am I even expecting some one to make his professional decisions based on personal ties? People have their priorities and the priorities on the professional end cannot be ignored for someone you know. Every person is free to make his choice and the rest can keep on crying foul. However I would also like to take learning from this chapter – Never expect anything from anyone, however close that person may be.