Respecting Your Friends
Virus or no virus, respect among friends should be on the stove as usual, bubbling nicely filling home with soup aroma.
Take testing for COVID-19 for example. It is for your friend to tell the world that he tested positive. There is no shame in that since the virus knows no class nor color but it should be his decision. In fact, he should be applauded for taking the initiative since roughly 90% of any given city is not.
Many factors cripple friendship. Pilot-ship is the main reason because one friend assumes the role of pilot, deciding when and how things should be done, including clothes and cars. Social media aggravates matters because it is self serving.
Social media is selfish media. We post things for our benefit or hidden agendas. Therefore, sending a tweet or using any other platform about your friend’s status spikes your views or followers. You are the caring one. Not necessarily. It is a breach of trust. He told you in confidence.
Pilots use the friendship as an extension of themselves. If they are on Facebook, all the passengers should be there. If pilots shift gears and fly to Instagram, passengers should follow suit. If they have a fall out with somebody, passengers should also cut all communication with that person.
Some pilots even forced their friends to be online. I’m sure you know people who finally joined social media because of pressure, especially from pilots, who made them think they are not full human beings if they cannot be Googled.
Members of the friendship are also to blame for being timid, allowing the pilot to boss them around. They must stand up for themselves especially in decisions that affect privacy like in the COVID-19 example.
They should also refuse to be party to schemes that will force them into debt because they are not rich like self-proclaimed pilots. Yes, we all want to belong, but at what price?
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
Many factors cripple friendship. Pilot-ship is the main reason because one friend assumes the role of pilot, deciding when and how things should be done, including clothes and cars. Social media aggravates matters because it is self serving.
Social media is selfish media. We post things for our benefit or hidden agendas. Therefore, sending a tweet or using any other platform about your friend’s status spikes your views or followers. You are the caring one. Not necessarily. It is a breach of trust. He told you in confidence.
Pilots use the friendship as an extension of themselves. If they are on Facebook, all the passengers should be there. If pilots shift gears and fly to Instagram, passengers should follow suit. If they have a fall out with somebody, passengers should also cut all communication with that person.
Some pilots even forced their friends to be online. I’m sure you know people who finally joined social media because of pressure, especially from pilots, who made them think they are not full human beings if they cannot be Googled.
Members of the friendship are also to blame for being timid, allowing the pilot to boss them around. They must stand up for themselves especially in decisions that affect privacy like in the COVID-19 example.
They should also refuse to be party to schemes that will force them into debt because they are not rich like self-proclaimed pilots. Yes, we all want to belong, but at what price?
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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