I just listened to a load of old rubbish that my friend spouted out on the way home. The difference - I was sober and driving and he had a few too many glasses of wine. It was lucky he knocked one of them over earlier too really.
It could be me or it could be him but suddenly everything is somehow us younger guys not showing respect or doing something he wouldn't do and so on. The terrible irony of the situation is this guy is in deep financial do do and stares into the abyss regularly. He cannot budget or use logic to stop himself and somehow this road of righteousness is something that he wishes his disciples to follow.
I can't believe I have grown so far apart from him so quickly and yet in the early stages of my cancer he was one of those who played the dark humour card with me. He didn't he admits now realise quite how ill I was (mind you neither did I then). We had desperate times in our friendship when he introduced me to the business venture that I thought would allow me to be close to retirement by now and that collapsed. It was more a case of me seeing the problem late and not getting him out in time. They owe him a lot of money too and he will never get it back. They owe me a load of time - I suppose I could monetise it but - that is 2 or more years ago now.
Quite why he has gone off on to some one man crusade is beyond me. I am not sure that I would take things quite so seriously and he jumps to massively wrong conclusions only to be pulled back to the reality some time later. Yes - a strange thing indeed and the trouble is he made himself a target for a number of people this evening and that will just add to his woes later.
How interesting as I wrote this an apologetic email has arrived. Back to repair mode for me and him again.
Life gets bloody complicated sometimes - surely it doesn't need to be like this.
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