The hexagonal philosophy

Today, A friend of mine called me up and quoted an incidence. Just before calling me, he had given a ring to another person he wanted to talk to. It went something like this:   Friend: Hello, blah blah blah   The other person: Yeah, blah blah blah  And as soon as he started on informal conversation:   Friend: How are You?   The other person: OK, Good night... And my friend felt awkwardness at this response from the other side. He just said okay, Bye and hung up.   Actually, he gave a call to that person just to make sure that the other person was alright. In return he got this ignorance.    I dont know whether that other person really ignored him, just wanted him out of his life or it was just some connection problem in phone. But lets take it this way that that person really wanted my friend out of his life. Thats where our LIMITS come.    Many a times we forget that people have their own lives too, we take them as granted and ...

Many a times it happens with me, I modify my life according to other people's needs.You may say:Everybody modifies, adjust their lives for others, whats the big deal in it? But do people really adjust their life for us at the extent we do for them? Take my parents for example: They would modify, even change their lives for my sake. Me on the other hand may not be able to that much for them and this inability of mine to not be able to change or adjust my life according to them must be distressing for them. That's exactly what happens with everyone. We adjust our lives for a particular person and then think that THAT person will also, not to our extent but adjust their life for us. In short, we are demanding a place in that person's life. And when we don't get one, we feel distressed.         Actually, i f we think by their minds, by keeping ourselves at their places, we would find that they are correct too. Why would someone give a place/ time of their lives to yo...