Expendables!

You are born to a mother! You can't choose your father or your siblings, but friends you can. A lot of people come in your life, some slide by and some stick around. You pick some and give them an exclusive space in your life. These are your favorite few who become your friends and mostly, just one of them tends to get that special spot of becoming your spouse!

My question for the day is who is expendable and why?

Let's tackle the who first! There are two line of thoughts around this. I wouldn't prefer one to another.

First, let me talk about the people whom I call "darwinist". Don't get me wrong, I am not going to peg anyone as evolved or un-evolved - pun intended. These are the people who believe in natural selection. Since, nature gave them parents and siblings, these folks are placed in the category of "not expendables". However, friends including girlfriends and/or boyfriends and spouse are certainly expendables. Since you picked them, you get the right to cut them off as well.

And then there are people who I refer to as "communists". These folks ,with revolutionary thought process, treat everyone alike. Their life and time is a common pool of resources and everyone has the right to it. However, they have a live perfectly operational "judicial" system where they can put anyone on trial and anyone can be held guilty and made expendable.

Now the second part, why does anyone become expendable. Everyone has a minimum level of expectations from every relationship. These expectations may vary from person to person but they most certainly exist. A person who proclaims he doesn't expect anything is either unaware or simply lying or my friend, you just met "Lord Buddha" himself! The person who falls below these expectation level becomes expendable. You may give them chance to get upto speed and if they don't, it wouldn't be long before the lock of door would be changed.

With a lot of pity for those expended!

Here's signing off
Charan!
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