Ok, let's look at reality tonight. This is a general discussion, and not pointed to any other persons. Any similarities shall be considered as coincidences.
You have friends all around you, that's true. They look for you when they have problems, and supposedly, you can share your problems with them. Some will pull you along, some will sink you, and some will just stab you in the back. You can't deny the existance of such friends.
Some friends will serve as reminders about deadlines. Some friends will just let you die by keeping quiet, so that they will get the upper hand. Be it sharing of info, be it applying for jobs. be it truthful. The latter ones, how will you see them as?
Scared of fair competition. Kiasu. And even, incompetence, cowards.
It's scary sometimes. You lend a helping hand, hoping that one day, you will be helped. That does not always hold true. It depends on what kind of friends you really have.
Another scary thing is that, whom you consider as a friend might not consider likewise. Scary… ooo…
That day during FNA tutorial, the tutor discussed about being successful. He wrote on the board, a center 'me', and 4 other blocks, for filling in 4 most important people in 'my' life. For example, family (mum or dad, or both), best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, close friends, etc. He said that how successful am 'I' will depend on how successful these 4 people are. So what he suggested is that to have important friends.
But he even suggested another thing: to be less contact with friends that may pull you down, hinder your success, and such. Keep a distance, something like that.
I see that as damn fake. Imagine you have a close friend. Then you somehow become very very successful, and you start to ignore this close friend just because he cannot meet up to your standard. So is that like… hanging your nose up high?
That's just so sad. I really hope I don't see much of these. Not very nice to see. But it's reality. It does happen sometimes.
So by applying finance theory into friends, it will be that, every friend has a beta value. If that friend has a relatively small beta value, then he/she will be a stable friend that is able to help you/let you help in times of need. Hard to find maybe.
Or you can diversify your 'risks' of having friends with high beta value: start a friend 'portfolio'! Have friends all over. Different friends. Different religions. Different thinking. Different sectors. Different aims. One fine day, you never know, you may have a similar aim as one of them.
Wahaha… I am going more and more out of point… rewind…
Ok. End of crap. Wahaha!!