Surprised Mike

Mike, one of Tina's friends, who was an IT expert, went to pay Tina a visit. When he reached Tina's house he saw quite a number of people where outside by her car. One of them was Tina's father. A very rich and reliable real-estate agent. Mike thought it was a miracle to find Tina's father there, since he was not too sticky to his independent daughter, neither was she to him. More to Mike's astonishment, he saw Richard came out from the house with a suitcase and a hand-bag heading towards the car and put those baggage into the baggage compartment. He rushed and asked who was going where and why. Richard laughed and replied that their girl-friend was leaving for Mauritius for a month-long holiday. Baffled. As Tina showed up by the door, after a hurry greetings and introduction to Tina's father, Mike complained that she did not inform him of her plan. She said she forgot.

Mike mentioned about hearing that Tina had rented a space to open a shop, and he was thinking of offering her his IT services. Tina smiled and said that it was too early to have a computerized billing system in her business, besides she still had to make some negotiations with a future prospective co-tenant. Tina looked at her watch and said she had to start going and she promised to talk about the IT subject after the holiday. They shook hands and kissed each other's cheeks and Mike made Tina promised to video-call him from there. And  also not to forget to bring home some souvenirs.

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Making friends with work

One makes friends not only by creating a society. Developing relationships with human being or with animals. In making friends, one gets to know the object of friendship. There are people who see something in somebody, then they get themselves acquainted, their friendship may become closer and deeper, which turn either into best-friends or even lovers. These are common, but there are also people simply take the object superficially and kept at arms length as they call it "buddy-buddy". That is okay. But what about making friends with the work or the job? People look for a job to get sustenance or as a life-support, every one knows that. And they look for a job that they know they can do and they like, this is definitely. People would not be able to perform well if they don't like the work.

And yet some people may be trapped in a such situation  that somehow they are forced to take a work they don't like, it is either because it is not their qualifications or due to unpleasant environment. In this situation inner-battles develop. It is either to be a stayer or leaver. Wise people, seeing the necessities, would make friends with that work, in a sense by learning about the work and even try to develop a kind of sixth sense to be able to visualize the characters of the work. Sound strange it is, but the moment the person succeeded in studying the object, he would find the the work which first he did not like, now has become something easy to deal with. 

This process often happens in a situation when for example a civil engineer graduate and unemployed is forced to help his father in a commodity shop where he smell odors he does not like, for instance the stinging smell of dry hot-chilly mix with the smell of spices in goni sacks, and in the end, he finds it a pleasure to serve buyers. Here we may say that he was able to make friends with a work and that led to making friends with people.

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