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**boltondd** · 09-21-2012, 11:30 AM

Your friend sounds like a spoiled little kid that needs to grow up, wake up and smell the coffee..It is her that is making herself unhappy, has nothing to do with customs.

FaranginPhetch is essentially right but the growing up part can be extremely difficult based upon both genetic and environmental factors.

"You start with the clay them mold it to it's final form"

I reckon that until a person is "grounded" i.e. completely happy with themselves, only then can be truly happy with the world around them. One way I have found to achieve this is to enrol in a good martial arts class, one that emphasises both the mental as well as the physical.

Anyway, until your friend has found her own way in the world then she should not get too involved in worrying about external relationships.

09-21-2012, 11:30 AM	#2
boltondd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	Your friend sounds like a spoiled little kid that needs to grow up, wake up and smell the coffee..It is her that is making herself unhappy, has nothing to do with customs. FaranginPhetch is essentially right but the growing up part can be extremely difficult based upon both genetic and environmental factors. "You start with the clay them mold it to it's final form" I reckon that until a person is "grounded" i.e. completely happy with themselves, only then can be truly happy with the world around them. One way I have found to achieve this is to enrol in a good martial arts class, one that emphasises both the mental as well as the physical. Anyway, until your friend has found her own way in the world then she should not get too involved in worrying about external relationships.
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