Something interesting happened to me today at a local hamburger joint.
I had just finished my shift at work and I was enjoying a nice lunch with a good friend.
I stopped in the restroom for a moment after eating.
On the way out my friend was talking to a man that I thought I might recognize but I wasn't sure.
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It was an old friend of mine from about 10 years ago. He was going to school to become an architect. He spoke very proper English and was quite the bookworm.
We made some small talk and I asked him about his life currently.
He never became the architect that he had been studying to become. Instead he got into construction. He spends his days working in fields building houses. His hands were rough and calloused. He had a general dirty appearance to him, not unlike an automotive worker.
Many of my friends are mechanics and most of them have to buy special soaps to wash their hands because it takes a lot to get all of that grease off.
The thing that I found particularly interesting was that my old friend no longer spoke using proper English. In fact he sounded like a street thug.
I was taken aback because the guy used to sound like a real gentleman. I guess in today's world sounding like a gentleman doesn't get you very far.
We had a brief conversation and then went on our way.
I felt a little bit awkward about the whole affair. He wasn't at all the same person that he used to be. I wonder if I am? I can't say for certain.
I would guess that I am not completely different than before. That's why I was surprised to see how much he had changed. Most people don't change that dramatically.
Have you ever known someone who changed in a way that makes you turn your head and say Wow?
It could be a good thing or a bad thing.
It's definitely an unusual thing though if you ask me.
It's a strange experience when people change dramatically.
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I've had an experience that reminds me of what you described a little. Once, I met up with someone after not seeing them for a few years and their opinion on something seemed to have changed completely. Like the exact opposite of what they were before. It was startling but I think it was mostly a matter of adapting to survive.
That could definitely be right. Adapting to survive. However I found this guy's Behavior to be quite aggressive and it was very off-putting. I missed the old guy and I didn't really care for the new one.
Let's hope he finds his way back to his true self.
I'm not the same person I was ten years ago and I'll be different, yet, in ten years. Life experience does that to a person.
To a degree. However, it usually doesn't take a nice person and turn him mean as it did in this case. For the most part people don't generally change their core personality that much although I guess it can be different on a case-by-case basis.
I'm living in the same town I grew up in. I occasionally run into people I knew back in high school and often I am shocked how life turned out for people. The craziest ones are finding out a high status or respectable person spent time in jail or got into drugs. Had that happen to quite a few people I grew up with.
In my experience people I knew in high school that were doing drugs that were supposed to do terribly in life are all super millionaires with jets and everything else while they've left the rest of us behind. It's actually a bit on a frustrating side.
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Human beings are like clay, and the life we live molds us.
After all, the very language and accent in which we speak is just our brains being molded by hearing others speak.
Your friend was molded by his life into something different from what you knew, and I don't know if that's good or bad. It could be either.
In fact, that TV show, "Breaking Bad" is all about this, how circumstances can mold a mild mannered middle class chemistry teacher into a fearsome and terrible drugs kingpin.
I have come across some old friends recently, and some seem haggard and gaunt, and others have spring in their step. What they did in life changed them.
However, whatever these changes are, they are better than the alternative. One of my closest early friends suddenly died of an aneurysm. He was a food critic for a newspaper, always so full of life. I wish he had had the chance to change.
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