Always thinking

My friend Dennis

I won't spend too much time on this but it worths mentioning. My friend Dennis seems always working on his startup project, always occupied with details, never had time thinking or doing anything else. He can play Guitar well enough to get girls attention, only if he were me. But even playing Guitar seems so much like work. He will stand all night now in front of his expansive mac pro in the kitchen forgetting to go back to his study to work more comfortably. He would miss one milestone after another no matter they are for fun or work. He has rent this enormous townhouse for a year, hired a bunch of people doing things that from day 1, I didn't see the significance nor the scalability, and he will go on and on about his grandeur's plan and ask me to keep secret: why wouldn't I. Only recently he told me none of these work out and he is moving to a much smaller place and cutting a lot of cost which he should have cut a lonnnnnng time ago. He was so occupied with his work that he would ask me to help out even I was just out in the kitchen in the middle of night to grab a milk before going to bed: he said he has to get this done before tomorrow. I did not ask why, I think sometime he forgets to ask himself why he is doing what he is doing. When I asked him if he ever gets lonely by himself working on these projects, he said he never did and he enjoyed himself. I am an expert on having a good time, and in my eyes, I don't see anything to be enjoyable, and it has not been fun just looking at him suffering without knowing it. Ah, Dennis, I feel sorry for him, honestly as a friend. And I probably won't choose to be in any situation working nor relaxing with him. It's sad to see this through for him.

posted by Road less travelled @ 11:10 PM