The underrated series - people

People are underrated. Yes, I said what I said.
I once read a post of a renowned woman in business talked about how she had gone to a meet up of successful women and while introducing themselves everyone had taken to saying their names and then the other 15secs was about their businesses and their careers, she said she had simply stood up, said her name and what she likes to do. It might interest you to know that this wasn't a business meeting neither was it a conference, it was just supposed to be a group of women meeting up to chill. At the time I read the post I had thought she was simply being modest. Ah!  I was young.

A successful woman had addressed a gathering of students in my undergraduate days and she had said "the problem I have with this generation is that you are a microwave generation, you want everything and you want it now" my first thought had been "what a wowuu,  we leave the comfort of our rooms and fresh air to come seat like sardines while receiving a special kind of air from the armpit lacking deodorant of the uncle beside us who feels a sleeveless shirt will keep the odour away,  Issokay". Boy!  I was young.

She went further to explain that the problem with being the microwave generation is that we miss the process of everything and want to skip to the part that gives us gain for getting that the process itself is gain.

Where am I going? Too many of us are too preoccupied with building circles for the future that we are actually missing out that there's more to people than the selfish benefits we can get from them, someone particularly said "I must have an HR specialist, an engineer.... in my circle" big question I have is why?

People are beyond their careers, beyond their businesses, beyond the money they have and the prestige. In our mighty selfishness we're not just seeing it. You have friends who are your friends for their careers and because of whatever selfish benefits you're getting from being friends with them you completely miss how dissatisfied they are with many things only for you to recite how you truly felt about them to their bodies rendered lifeless by suicide.

People are so much more than what you selfishly consider, there's their personality and how they process things which of course is of great value. As much as I recognize having some friends in certain careers  makes some things easier. How many of us have threatened troublemakers we'd sue them because our friend just recently graduated from law school? Don't raise your hand. Lol.
I'm just saying their careers shouldn't be what makes us friends with them. Talk to people, relate with them without any motives, set aside your preconceived notions of how careers determine the quality of persons and just get to see them. Beyond what people can do for you, they are still of great value. You just need to see it.
Outside the lights of career, skills and accomplishments, see people.


But wait, aren't we even too young to be having these problems?
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