work relationships
have always been so strange and foreign to me
it's like you're supposed to act like you've known and worked forever with
whoever you meet, and they act just the same
occasionally peppering work with personal questions to get to know you better
and more often just joking and making the most of what is after all still
work
I've learned how it works -- it's taken 20 years
and gotten so much more comfortable
still when people leave, my old feelings come tumbling back
like I've invested time in relationships that are so transient and which
absolutely will and must change
at least in the corporate/marketing world I inhabit during many of my waking hours.
but then, in the grand scheme, you could say that every relationship is transient
and will come to an end,
so is there really a difference, and why not just put it out there
and continue to ask personal questions and pretend it's more than it is
and then sometimes,
maybe it is.