I don't mean to offend (I always end up saying that when I'm about to speak honestly) but sometimes it sounds as if people are painting guides as 'servants'. Apparently, they're here at our beck and call, their sole purpose for the remainder of our lifetime to help us. Maybe it's just me, but thinking of them like that seems a bit disrespectful. I mean, they're the older, wiser ones, so long as we're still in physical bodies right? In some religions, it's humans who 'serve' God, etc. Why should it be the other way around for guides? I've read posts that may have explained briefly why guides supposedly spend our whole lives doing what we need them to. The spirit world seems so vast, and it doesn't seem 'right' for people to know everything about it. Well, who am I to say, maybe people do know a lot about it :P Maybe I'm only brave enough to ask this because recently I broke off a friendship because my sole purpose seemed to have been to serve their delights. My angry thoughts were, 'what right do you have to even presume to know and think to control me? I deserve to be respected, I wasn't born just to help tie your shoes. If you're not going to stop treating me like a servant, then why don't you just do it by yourself?' Well that was the gist of it, anyway. Anyway, that went slightly off track :P