What type of disrespect if you don't mind me asking
Lots of things man. Today it was me getting frustrated about how I go out of my way to help people out, and they dont even respect the effort I put in to try and help them out of a shytty situation. Nobody asked me or told me to do it, and nobody does it for me. I just do it for others because I want to help my friends, right. Because that's what a friend should do.
One of my boys, he's been unemployed for years and I've been hooking him up with ways to make money for years. I mean concrete schemes to make some easy money, legit money doing jobs, that anybody could do, all you have to do is apply and you're guaranteed to get the job. The pay is always decent and the job is never some demeaning wack shyt like fast food or whatever, its jobs i do myself and when I'm finished with them I put him on so he can make some money. He's not getting hired at any place so it's not like he can turn his nose up at the jobs I send his way.
He's never done any of them though. Recently we were hanging out with this other dude we dont know so well, his brother's homie. We got to talking about all this job and money problems and my boy was hanging on his every word, talking about how he was going to do this and that. Everything that dude suggested, he followed through with. Now you know that rubbed me up wrong because he didn't even put him on or anything like that, just gave him some basic resume advice.
So it's like, damn, I spent the last five years showing you job opportunities that were easy lay ups and paid well, and you never did any of them or even gave me a thank you, and this other guy who we dont even know like that tells you some basic advice and you're going to follow through with that weak shyt?
Another one, this girl I've known forever, she wouldn't have graduated university without my help. She stays hitting me up for advice even now, in regards to her career and building up skills to progress with that and I'm always happy to help. Then I find out last week she's been saying shyt about me behind my back, for no reason at all. That's cold
Now I don't mind too much. People can do whatever. I dont hate you or consider you my enemy unless you directly try to get in my way and fukk up my career. But I dont like being disrespected like that, taken for granted by one person, and not taken seriously by another person. Maybe it's because I'm naive and trust people too much, or it's because I have this idea that I have to be useful to other people to justify their friendship with me. In any case its something I realised I've got to change about myself. If I go out of my way and put in 100% to help my friends, and they dont ever return the favour or even thank me for it, then they're just taking advantage of me and I'm the one who's losing.