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- by UsR Jason
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Title: Don't get too familiar
Writer: UsR Jason
Date: 9th March 2010
Never get too familiar in life. Maybe in your life where you have been all along since the start, you have a certain standing where you can pretty much do what you want without repercussion.
Whenever you make a change, you lose that. You start over and no matter what sort of legacy you create for yourself, you will never be an original. You could be better in every single possible way but you will never be an original unless you were there from the start.
It could be joining a company. People will always bang on about the good old days. Someone will say before your time. Someone will reference something you cannot possibly have any say about just to make you listen.
It could be joining a team. The nostalgia will flow. The glory days. Before it all went wrong. The blame placed squarely on the shoulders of the new guy.
It could even be having newbie status in a game. Even if you have played for a year, if someone has played for two years you are always the newbie to them. Even if ten years down the line you are eleven years into a game, they will still be twelve.
It applies to life too. Moving in with a lover. Their home. Their rules. Whoever has to relocate gives up their right to a say so. Especially over distance. A foreign land. Even if it is just a bus ride away, you still relinquish your home to go to theirs.
As far as relatives or dependents go, it will get even worse. There will always be times when people will say they wish it were like before. Times you are reminded of who you are. Times you are reminded exactly who you are definitely not.
The thing is with life and change, you just got to know your role and shut your hole. Because when you go into someone else's life, team, job or game, it does not matter how much they try to welcome you or how much they try to be nice, the fact is they remember what it was like before you were there and ultimately only they know if it is better now or before.
They will always be able to say before you were here and always able to fabricate a reference to a superior time before you were around even if that time never really existed.
Never get too familiar. Never lose yourself into someone else's life and above all, never lose your pride or dignity for anyone. No matter how much you care or have to bend over backwards, retain your pride and dignity at all costs.
You may be nothing in the new world but you always have an old world where you meant so much to everyone.
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