Friends.
How do you know you have a good friend? What is your definition?
People are quick to call someone their friend. For me, it takes time, lots of time to become my friend.
Look at someone you call your friend. Think of all you'e been through. All the fun times.
If someone offered you $1million dollars to tell all the juicy secrets you know about your friend, would you? Would you clean all those bones out of the closet? Would you risk your friendship?
Would you do it for 1/2 a million? $500,000 in small bills. Just think what you could accomplish with $500,000.
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yup. i'll do it for a million. hell, even just 10 grand. but i'll split it with that friend.
In my book, the ideal "good friend" is someone who's loyal, honest (i.e., tells you the truth & not what you want to hear), keeps your confidences, behaves in a discreet manner, exhibits "grace under pressure," takes the time & makes the effort to maintain the friendship, & will do the right things when the chips are down.
When the shit hits the fan, see who's left standing in your corner. That person still in your corner is your true friend.
I also take a while before I let someone "in" as my good friend. While I'm generally liked & have got lots of acquaintances, I hold most people at arms length as a "safety precaution." It takes a few years before I really begin to trust someone on a deeper level.
The true sign of my trust is if I leave my purse in the room with a person when I walk out of the room, or let them hang out in my house unattended as I go into another room. My house is my fortress, & I don't like strangers in my house if I'm not there. I live in the city & won't even hire a cleaning lady because I don't trust anyone I don't know to be in the house alone without me there. The only way I'd relent is if I could get someone to clean the house on Saturdays, so I could be present.
That's how much I DON'T trust people in general! ;-)
I wouldn't even rat out a friend's secret for 12 million dollars, unless I found out that that friend had done something disloyal & backstabbing towards me. Then all bets would be off.
If you can be bought & sold with money, you can likewise be easily blackmailed, & thus controlled by others. And I wouldn't fork over that kind of control over me for all the money in the world. My character, self-respect, & overall integrity are way too strong to let someone bully me like that.
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