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Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The OtherJune 14, 2008 Let’s face it. I live in Portland, Oregon. The people in Ontario, on the eastern side of the state, could give a rip about me. The people in Des Moines battling the flood waters of the Des Moines River could care a fig about me here in Portland. Heck, close to home most of the people in my little neighborhood, don’t even know I exist. The corporatedojo writes No one is looking for you. I am not so sure anyone is looking out for you either, in fact, I may so bold as to suggest, most people do not care about you. … Outside your small circle of friends, family and loved ones, most people are busy taking care of their own business, as it should be.Corporatedojo makes an excellent point. We have furniture and accessories businesses. We want people to use our stores for their home décor needs. How do we get them to join our community that cares about us? If it is true that most people don’t give a moments attention to you and me, then I asked another question that led me surfing around the net asking the new question Does God care for us? There are a lot of answers mostly about many who lose their faith when bad things happen. One answer goes like this: Yes, He does care very much about all aspects of our lives.There’s the rub. We believe we don’t have the energy to care about “all aspects of everyone’s lives”. And we don’t. Walter Williams, writing in Capitalism Magaziine, shared his thoughts on this subject with his professor and mentor Armen Alchian. Williams told Alchian that “my wife assumes that everybody is her friend until they prove differently. While such an assumption maximizes the number of friends that she will have, it also maximizes her chances of being betrayed. Unlike my wife, my assumption is everyone is my enemy until they prove they're a friend. That assumption minimizes my number of friends but minimizes the chances of betrayal.” Professor Alchian suggested a third way: The most reliable assumption, in terms of the conduct of one's life, is to assume that generally people don't care about you one way or another. It's a mistake to assume everyone is a friend or everyone is an enemy, or people are out to help you, or people are out to hurt you.A major implication of this third way of looking at life is that your destiny, basically, is in your hands. In other words, how you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, you must find ways to please your fellow man. That is, you must discover what goods and services your fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it. Whether your fellow man cares about you or not is largely irrelevant.That takes us back to corporatedojo: One answer to the question was posed by the comedian Steve Martin “If no one is looking for you then you find them, you attract them, you bring them in and be so dam(n) good they can’t ignore you.” Thoughts? Email me at landfair3554@comcast.net Posted by Mike Landfair on June 14, 2008 | Comments (7)
June 14, 2008
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other corporatedojo commented: Michael so has it going on. Many people live there lives acting like they are the busiesst people in show biz. But when it comes to friends they all claim to have so many friends. The guy at Starbucks is my friend, the guy I see every week at my son's boyscouts is my pal....No they are not. They are at best acquaintances. I suggest if you think they are your friends you raise your standards. You are only suppossed to have a handfull of true friends. The rest are loose ties. I pride myself on having few friends. I hold friendship to a higher standard as should you. I encourage all of you to come back to Mr. Landfairs blog becase as a man of 50, and having met and worked with hundreds of people, I can assure you that Mr.. Landfair is a highly evolved man with great taste, knowledge and wisdom and learning from him is a valuable asset to one's life.
June 14, 2008
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other Mike Landfair commented: corporatedojo, thank you so much, I couldn't have said it better myself. Seriously, thank you for those kind words and I enjoyed your blog so much. It caused me to think, have a conversation with my wife on the subject, look for the words of others, explore the wisdom in the Bible online and so much more.
February 3, 2009
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other Brenda commented: I was recently asked by my teacher why I value my life, and though I had no response to his question at first I slowly started to realize that I was trying to give him a response that convinced him that my life was valuable, which obviously was not going to happen because he simply did not care. And why should he? Now I'm a senior who's final paper involves me explaining why I value my life and the only good response I have come up with is that I have to value my life because no one else will. Thank you very much Mr. Landfair, without your thoughts and ideas on this subject I would have found it extremely hard to prove my point in my paper.
February 5, 2009
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other Mike Landfair commented: Brenda, thank you for the compliment. Rxactly, if you don't do it, who will.
August 10, 2009
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other Objesmete commented: whats up I have been lingering this internet site for a long time. Figured i would jump in.
August 29, 2009
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other jason commented: From my experience people don't give the least amount of care about you which is fine. It is better than persecution.
August 29, 2009
In response to: Most People Don't Care About You One Way Or The Other Saleh commented: One should not care about what others think of him as long as the person is pleasing Allah(God). In the end,It is God who decides if you righteous or not.
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