A Few Not-So-Random Thoughts
It's common sense, but is worth repeating now and then:
You can't be all things to all people all the time.
As much as you might like to be; as much as you might try to be, it's just not possible. We all serve many masters. Most of us serve several of the same, with minor variations here and there and a major one (or two) thrown in to keep things lively (how boring would life be were that not the case?). Sometimes you can't be there when someone else can and sometimes they can't when you can.
Other times, life's many vagaries - be they good or bad - take people unexpectedly onto different paths. It's an adjustment to be sure, but one should be given the freedom to do as one sees fit. It reminds me of a favorite quote of mine from Thoreau that's applicable to many things, including my thoughts before I crawl into bed momentarily:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Someone might not do things the way you would, but that doesn't make either of you right or wrong; it simply means you're taking divergent paths in the journey onward ... one on which it's possible to arrive at the same place without taking the same route.
You can't be all things to all people all the time.
As much as you might like to be; as much as you might try to be, it's just not possible. We all serve many masters. Most of us serve several of the same, with minor variations here and there and a major one (or two) thrown in to keep things lively (how boring would life be were that not the case?). Sometimes you can't be there when someone else can and sometimes they can't when you can.
Other times, life's many vagaries - be they good or bad - take people unexpectedly onto different paths. It's an adjustment to be sure, but one should be given the freedom to do as one sees fit. It reminds me of a favorite quote of mine from Thoreau that's applicable to many things, including my thoughts before I crawl into bed momentarily:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Someone might not do things the way you would, but that doesn't make either of you right or wrong; it simply means you're taking divergent paths in the journey onward ... one on which it's possible to arrive at the same place without taking the same route.