Friendship<\/a> How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst?<\/p>\nThe person who changed my perspective on the world this year is no longer a friend. The change was a sudden burst…more like a slap in the face actually. She showed me that I had been ignoring things that I didn’t want to see, because I didn’t want to believe that any friend of mine would be that cruel or do something so selfish. I was projecting my own moral compass onto her, expecting her to think the same way I do and to act the same way I would in a certain situation.<\/p>\n
This has helped me to realize that I can’t expect everyone I know to have the same scruples I do. I can’t expect my friends to all act with the same principles and ethics that I have. I can only expect myself to make decisions and react in an acceptable way that is worthy of me. I can only expect myself to treat others the way I want to be treated.<\/p>\n
Tough lesson to learn, not all people have the same level of integrity that\u00a0 I expect from myself. But I’ve learned it now and perhaps moving forward my eyes will be open so that I don’t get slapped again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve fallen behind again so this time around I’ve picked one prompt to answer. And I’m going to “go there” I’m going to answer it fully and honestly. Friendship How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst? The person who changed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reverb10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}