This past week I ran into a friend of mine who I hadn’t seen in quite some time. It was good to see him again, at least for a few minutes.
Then I remembered why I stopped associating with him in the first place.
The guy has a big heart, and you can’t help but love him. Unfortunately, he is also an incessant whiner.
He is always going on about how he doesn’t make enough money with his job, and how things never seem to go right for him in life. No matter what you say to him there is no shaking his loser mantality. He has chosen to be the victim in life, and to be quite honest I think he enjoys it.
But it doesn’t stop there. It’s not enough for him to mope and complain about his own life, he does his best to bring the people around him down as well.
He asked me how my ‘little internet business’ was going. Remember it’s been a long time since we had spoken last.
I certainly didn’t want to rub anything in here, so I just told him politely that things were moving along and that I had quit my job as a delivery driver last year.
I could see the irritation in his face. This guy was...