People Skills

I have always sucked with my buddies girlfriends. It is because I am jealous and my ego can be somewhat big. I always feeings of jealousy that the my guy friends have girlfriends, or jealousy because the woman get attention from people. Ok I will just be honest. My Ego can get Really big when it wants attention. For the last couple years I have talked and prayed to really see people for who they are. I talked to Raymond and the late Jamie Findly about how I always have emotions with people that I can't set aside when interacting with people. I had a problem for the longest time just being a jerk to people. (Sometimes I still am a Jerk to people...but hey I am human) I have had several interactions as of late with my buddies girlfriends or wives that I think shows spiritual progress. Just like shooting a basketball is a skill that can be cultivated I really believe handling people or showing social intelligence is a skill that can be grown. It took some work but I am happy that that interactions with people go better today than they did a decade ago. It is important to me for many reasons, but most importantly because I am going to come across some 25 year old guy who keeps fighting everyone and everything like I used to, and I am going to teach him just I have been taught. You can really work on being patient with yourself and others and see good results. I like to have a vision for myself practicing being a good person for a long time and being some sort of a spiritual teacher to young people who constantly try to go against the flow of life.


Also I talked to this lady the other day who played in a band for the first time at Black Dog. I knew lots about recording studios, guitars, bass, basically anything and everything about being in a band. The hard work that I put in over the summer playing in a band came in useful and I think the lady could use a couple of my nuggets of information to help her band along and not do stupid stuff that can be avoided. I am satisfied when the grind, the work, the experience, helps someone else in the journey.