I see a lot of u guys have money issues with other dudes. That's why I don't lend people money. I don't care who it is. I'm not a bank, don't ask me for money, don't ask me for a loan. I know how people that go around asking others for money are like. They won't pay you back. That's how they get down. They even see you as a sucker if u lend em the money.
The only people I would lend money to is immediate family members. And then I don't expect to get it back. If they can pay me back great. If not, I'm cool with it, I can live with that.
That's life. I haven't really had falling out with friends, more like a change of life where they got married, had careers, and moved away.
Its funny. When you're young it's almost if the friends you have seem like the people that will be there forever. But as time goes on, everyone goes their seperate ways.
Yes, I had to learn all of this the hard way. Nothing is permanent, especially not something as fickle as human relationships. Money and p*ssy are the top 2 reasons why things end up not working out. So many of these men out here are weak and will shyt on you over a few dollars or a few minutes in some p*ssy. It's crazy.
When I was younger, I didn't want to admit these things to myself because of what they'd mean about human nature in general. Usually, many people in this life will not be grateful if you decide to be giving and split resources with them. They can actually develop a sense of entitlement to your generosity and get disrespectful with you! I see right through ungrateful, manipulative behavior from the beginning and I always try to show people, try to explain to them, that they don't have to play those games with me because I'm not the sucker they assume I am. I try to tell them as long as we have a respectful relationship, I'll try to hold you down anytime I got it. But they never fukking listen and always try to do some shady shyt even if I tell them the relationship would last longer and they'd actually get more out of it if they stayed honest.
Even with a supernatural patience and lots of forgiveness, dudes can just become complete a$$holes when you take care of them, forcing you to break it off. This is why we can't have nice things, especially in the hood. They've been conditioned to try to scam and take advantage of a good thing, even when there's no reason to do so.
It sucks that I have to stop being generous, because I have no problems sharing money, splitting resources with people I'm (supposedly) cool with, but once they decide to plan their life around me always having funds for them and get frustrated on the occasions I don't, then it's done.
I've been burned a few times, over some petty nonsense, and I guess I'll just charge it to the game, but I'm not being generous with friends anymore. It actually fukks things up in the long run.
A relevant quote, this is true even on an interpersonal level:
“In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensation for injustices – leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
Thomas Sowell