When "Tool" Realization Sets In

I subscribe to urban dictionary word of the day - it's pretty cool for us old boomers to be able to translate the upcoming generations' language. One word recently was "Tool" which meant something about a fool who was being used by others and was too stupid to realize that he was even being used and that was the only reason he/she was allowed to hang around.

This has struck a chord - why I've tried to maintain relationships with those folks I met while my business was still growing - prior to it's sudden demise (another post thread for later).

I honestly now believe that, in spite of the fact that these relationships have been one sided and have deteriorated to just short of mocking me to my face, I continue to return in hopes of maintaining my denial that these people were actually only my "friends" while I had a business which they could get something from.

In other words, my mother was right. Ouch.