are you leaving them or are they leaving you?

As you've asked a pertainant question without a particular context I'll answer you without a particular context. There are very few people who I don't speak to, very few! It's a rude and egocentric practice, normally I'll debate with anyone. However There are exceptions to every rule. Those engrossed with their own self importance, those who consider themselves beautiful people, the vexatious, I leave them to wallow in their own ignorance, distracted by the demands of materialism. I have no interest in them, or their fate. They follow a downward path, I go my own way, they are only a distraction.

Sadly, many of this one past associates are still in the same place mentally and physically that they were in more than thirty years on. They have not progressed or grown in their knowledge nor outlook nor realizations.

We simply can't remain stagnant in such a manner as it is self destructive.

This one went on the beginning of his own "hero's journey", as is taught in the mythos of every society and culture of humanity however, one of things learned from such is that in our now more complex societal structure, one can not really go home again and the effects of the journey change on in such ways as to lead one to be rejected by those he brings his newly acquired knowledge to.

C'est la vie!

Those who are still sitting stagnant are and forever will be held dearly in this one's heart however, this one went to walk the walk and the path is still leading onward.

They left me

Oh the silence is part of the conversation.

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