When at home, your parents expects you to be alert and on standby mode for most times.
When out, your friends expects you to be entertaining, lively, joyous and (yes, I am bold to use this word in this century) gay.
So I am asking you, how can we ever please everyone?!
Let me just illustrate...
So your boss expects you to finish up your work, but since you have a pile of files to conquer...
You, being a productive, efficient and responsible employee, takes back your work home.
Thinking of how lucky the firm is to have you...
You bring back the work home only to find that the house is not in order and that your parents expect you to be on your tippy toes with your ears perked up constantly.
" Come this, go there, do this, don't dare" rhymes in your ear.
In between serving their demands and squeezing in some time to work (if you can concentrate, that is), you get a phone call from your friends.
After exchanging hellos and "how are you"s, they manage to coax you into going out...
By using the oldest tricks like commenting on how you don't have a life, how long it has been since the both of you caught up and much worse, 'the friend card' (*scary music playing in background*)
Just as you think you are doing both your friends' and yours (since you don't have a life apparently) a favour, your friends' comment on your zonked-out face and lax (or lack of) response.
In the end, all you get is a tired, frustrated, blacked-face you.
Since you...
didn't manage to finish your work - had to slog the next week too
disappointed your parents - they really counted on you
lost some friends (maybe) - they would never call you out again, party-pooper
hate everything about yourself - can never face yourself again
Now after all that, the moral of the story is...
It's all the fault of work!
So never sacrifice anything, everything for it...
Let everything be in proportion,
LiSs ^^
