Firing Friends

By Tommy Leung on 07/20/2010 in Life

I got a specific e-mail about a year ago. I did not read it. I didn’t want to read it. I didn’t care what was said. I marked it as read in GMail and forgot about it. I decided to open it a year later. I don’t know why I had the urge to read it but, I could have gone without ever remembering that e-mail.

Actually, I didn’t even read it. I just skimmed it and read parts. It was useless in every way. About as senseless and idiotic as the person who wrote it. My life hasn’t suffered without this person. In fact, it might be better because I haven’t seen this person.

Firing people from my life isn’t a rare occurrence. I’m not saying I fire people from my life all the time but, sometimes you need to fire some of them. The energy to deal with them will drastically reduce the quality of relationships you have with others. And that’s unfair.

Like a box of blueberries, you keep the good ones and discard the rest.

By Tommy Leung