![]() ![]() The lowest part of Tier 3 begins to blend indistinguishably into your large group of acquaintances (the pink zone): those people you'd stop and talk to if you saw them on the street or would maybe email for professional purposes but whom you'd never hang out with one-on-one. You may also try to sleep with one of these people at any given time. Your relationship tends to exist mostly as part of a bigger group or through the occasional Facebook Like, and it doesn't even really stress you out when you hear that one of them made $5 million last year. You might grab a one-on-one drink with one of them when you move to their city, but then it surprises neither of you when five years pass and drink #2 is still yet to happen. Toward the bottom of the mountain in the orange zone, you have your Tier 3 friends: your Not Really friends. And if something huge happens in their life, there's a good chance you'll hear it first from someone else. If you live in the same city, you might see them every month or two for dinner and have a great time when you do, but if one of you moves, you might not speak for the next year or two. You might be invited to their wedding, but you won't have any responsibilities once you're there. Pretty Good friends are a much calmer situation than your brothers and sisters on Tier 1. Tier 1 is high stakes.īelow, in the yellow zone, are your Tier 2 friends: your Pretty Good friends. Unfortunately, depending on how things went down in your youth, Tier 1 can also contain your worst enemies, the people who can ruin your day with one subtle jab that only they could word so brilliantly hurtfully, the people you feel a burning resentment for, or jealousy of, or competition with. These are the people closest to you, the ones you call first when something important happens, the ones you love even when they suck, who make speeches at your wedding, whose best and worst sides you know through and through, and whose relationship with you is eternal even if you go months or years without hanging out, nothing has changed when you find yourself together again. Via Wait But Why post and used with permission.Īt the top of your life mountain, in the green zone, you have your Tier 1 friends - the people who feel like brothers and sisters. Visual interpretation of where friends fall on the mountain of “You." ![]()
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