I try to live a clean life
When someone starts with "Hikorohi, are you close with that guy from such and such place?", the next line is usually something like "He said he went out drinking with Hiko" or "He said he's good friends with Hiko-chan." And in most cases, I don't know the slightest bit about that "guy." Even if I did, we're not particularly close. If I'm close to someone, I know that I absolutely detest having someone who doesn't know me make assumptions about our relationship when I'm not around.
It's true that we may have been drinking in the same space, but that's all there is to it. However, it seems that strange stories, big and small, are popping up everywhere, without my knowledge, and it seems that the number of people who are "close" to me is increasing without my knowledge.
The most shocking moment occurred when a man approached her while she was having dinner with a junior colleague and persistently asked for her contact information. They exchanged contact information, hoping to settle things peacefully. Later, when her junior met the man, he had lied to her, saying, "Hikorohee asked for my contact information." She couldn't believe it and thought she might get a nosebleed. In fact, her junior told her about it while having a nosebleed.
By the way, I'm sure he talks about me wherever he wants, and I've heard all sorts of things from all over the place, but it's not a problem because I'll never meet or have any contact with him again in this life.
While he, out of some strange vanity, self-satisfiedly uses the names of celebrities to lie and attract meaningless attention in the moment, or while he repeats these incredibly foolish and pointless acts of trying to make himself look bigger in such a trivial way, I quietly and diligently do what I have to do, be kind to people, work sincerely, learn honestly, gain solid skills, never forget to be grateful, deepen my connections with cool people who are consistent, and steadily and surely become even more authentic.
As someone who strives to live a clean life, I am grateful that he continues to prove with such foolish acts here and there that he is someone I will never cross paths with again, and will never even let myself step on his shadow. And there are many such people out there, many of whom I don't know about.
However, I am also at fault for having had indiscriminate interactions with others. There are several reasons for this, but the main cause may have been my indifference to my position. I should be more discerning about the people I associate with and more determined to avoid spreading rumors of indecent behavior or a bad reputation.
However, I have seen many people who are too concerned about their status and are timid or too picky when interacting with others, and I have often thought, "What are you worth?" Rather than valuing status, the idea that we are all equals as human beings is also beautiful. For example, if you are drinking at a bar, you can even think of it as a friendship.
It's a place where you forget who you are, and no, it becomes a place where everyone is nobody, and you don't want to treat your friends badly. It's not that I want to meet great people, I just don't want to meet people who do lame things. Apparently, that's how difficult it is.
It is difficult to draw the line when it comes to interaction and friendship, but based on my limited life experience, I have identified three things to be wary of that I can say for sure: "They gossip about their friendships even though no one asked about them," "They gossip about the private lives of strangers without their permission," and "They gossip about things that are not interesting."
I have to be careful of people who fit any or all of these three types of chatterboxes, and as I was writing this article, the cafe suddenly became crowded, and the owner suddenly asked me if I would mind sharing a table since it was getting crowded.Now, I suddenly found a complete stranger sitting in front of me, and I was hesitating, thinking, ``This is a rare opportunity, this doesn't happen often, it might be fun, so maybe I should try talking to this guy,'' but maybe I'm the one who's being careless.
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