This has happened to me before. An old classmate asked another classmate and me to meet up to catch up. We were happy as it has been sometime since we catch up. What we did not know was that she has a different agenda for the meeting. She has a new job as an insurance agent and she was making this meeting a sales meeting. My friend and I were polite and tried to bring her back to why we are meeting in the first place, to chat and catch up on news of our classmates, how and where they are, not to listen to a sales pitch on why we must buy insurance from her. Then she became pushy and upset and she left in anger that we were not supportive. We paid for her meal but we learnt a lesson. People changed and over the years the nice easy going girl we knew has gone. Whether it was exposure to work stress or other reasons, we will never know. We did not contact her after that, but i am glad the classmate that went with me, now we meet more regularly and we share more than we did before. So maybe that meeting was a blessing in disguise.
@jeezzle, you are right we should not let negativity from others influence our own state of mind and emotion. It can be a bad chain of reaction for others after your bad experience.
Thanks for sharing.
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An interesting story. People change and it's not always for the better.