The Right Way To Look at The World

I've been watching the first season of The White Lotus and for those unfamiliar with the show, it follows a few rich families as they spend their time at a resort in Hawaii. Each family is massively flawed though one particularly caught my attention due to their conversations. The mother is a CEO of a multinational cooperation, the father is unknown but makes less than her, son is addicted to pornography and screens, and daughter is a drug addict with insane jealousy issues. They all have different ideas of what is right and voice them often. The daughter has a black friend who she brought, who both share the idea that "it's time for the white man to step aside" which is contrary to the mother who feels for her son, saying that it's not his fault and not he's being unfairly ostracized from society. The resort they are staying at used to be native and sacred land but the government and developers didn't care. Some of those natives now work at the hotel. Tha...

date and job

 I've made this correlation before but I think that getting a girlfriend and landing a job are very similar things. I feel like both require a lot of trust that the others is it in for the right reasons. You need to think about the long term commitment of both. 

Both make me nervous, I just want to do a good job, be a good boyfriend, and create wealth and connection. I don't want to do it wrong and get used at my job or be in a relationship that only takes and never gives. I tend to just stumble into things and check out how they go and hope that I'm not missing obvious red flags.

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