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Friday, March 13, 2009
Friends = Investment? I'm starting to think of friendship as an investment. When investment in friends work, we add Love Units (LU) into our love bank. But if the investment in a friend fails, we subtract LU from our love bank. 1. Don't invest without being prepared for the possible risks involved. But once you invest, be prepared for the day your investment may fail you. 2. Prepare for a possible investment loss by diversification - don't put all your eggs into one basket. Have many friends, as many as possible (that you can open up to, those that you know are surely reliable). If not, your failed investment in friends may just leave you an empty shell. Feelings are more fragile than money. When we invest using our feelings, and if it fails, the effect is much worse than if money fails us. 3. Know when to let go of a bad investment. If your investment is helping you to lose money instead of gaining money, ask if that investment is still worth keeping. Is this just a momentary dip? Or you foresee that the situation will simply go from bad to worse in the long term? Likewise, ask if that friend is worth keeping. If that friend has subtracted LU in your Love Bank, is that a momentary dip? Is that dip something you can sustain using your current assets? If not, drop that investment. Or worse - Do you foresee that he/she will continue to dip your account until you become emotionally bankrupt in the long term? If yes, drop that investment in that friend IMMEDIATELY. 4. What determines whether an investment is bad/good is the timing & season of that investment opportunity. Scenario 1: That particular friend may not be a wise investment at this point in my life, cos I don't qualify to make that investment based on my current capacity. If that investment requires $1 million, and I don't have $1 million, don't try to deceive myself to think that I have that $1 million just because I want that investment badly. We can only give out of what we HAVE, not what we Don't Have. Scenario 2: This friend may not be a good investment today, but may be a good investment tomorrow. Don't be narrow-minded. It pays to give others chances to see them transform. People change. ------------ I'm not an expert in investments, stocks and business. I'm like totally far from it. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that it's true. Of how we are doing investments everyday of our lives. To invest is to TRUST. I don't just put my trust in anyone, anyhow. I have a soul. I have emotions. I need to protect myself from getting hurt too. But when I hurt, I want to be able to depend on my other eggs in the basket. I want to find myself someone whom can help in that healing process. God is my ultimate healer. And God is probably the only investment I have put into that I know will never fail. Thank God for that. Labels: contemplative, revelation 4:04 PM
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