Adjudicated Parallels

When looking around at the vast expanse of opportunities to make friendship, many start with innocuous ones during childhood. After having developed into the adults they are, people start ignoring friendships with strangers. The friendship criterion that was naive and unassuming, blossoms into an investment to some or a shoulder to rely on. Nonetheless, the one I developed is for friends to fit into an all-weather category. There was a person from our extended family who used to be a long distant friend. Slowly, I found that he was aloof but helped our family unit in times of need. But, after a storm broke out between our emotional strongholds, he started to part ways and side with his own folks. This lasted till I built a reputation in the society and he retreated from his questionable and nagging ways. Though his antics became greatly less severe and moved on to extending a warm gesture to me, I ignored. What are friends for if they do not fit a simple criterion like this? The...

It is easy to know people's emotions such as being hurtful. Whenever they happen to be hurt, it is clearly visible in their body language. This could be further used to arrive at a negotiable and fair price in purchase of goods. Whenever they are hurt at some spoken word or question asked or something done, people see sideways to where they are- both sides. They even look here and there as if to say they are searching for something. To enumerate a scenario: I was buying guava near a bus station. Attempting to know the price, I asked the big ones for a very petty price. This irked the old woman who was selling and she looked sideways as if  to show her contempt. Later, she remarked that a whole crate of them are sold for a thousand rupees. I immediately noticed her honesty and did not bargain, but bought the guavas at the quoted amount. This could be specifically used to close a good deal in business decisions, if at all, people be more wise and shrewd while doing it. Have a ...