It tends to be…

 It tends to be a "self-fulfilling" prophesy:  Don’t put too much into a relationship, because they will leave and take your investment with them.

Life experiences say this is so, even if it’s not true, because the less you put into it, the less you get out.

Life is risk; choose your emotional investments wisely.

It turns out that my former wife and present friend was and is a wise investment.  I have made a few of those.  My friend Jhni, for example, who I have known for all of these 35 years since I met her when I was 15.

Damn.  That’s a long time.

When I was younger, I tended to invest more in friendships, and so, some of them have "paid off" – I still know those people, decades later.  Decades – tens of years.  A lifetime for some people, a major part of mine.

I did not spend the day alone, really.  I went to my friend A’s house and washed my car – winter prep .  I have known A since I came back to the US in 1996, a long time.  He says "we’re brothers from another mother".  Ten years difference in age, and pretty different, really, but we are both cats who walk alone.  Not ALONE, since we are friends, but alone in other senses.  He put a big investment into his relationship with J, whom I have written about here too, but it turned out to be a losing investment – booze and prior trauma in her life prevented fulfillment.

Anyway, my car looks good tonight.

As it should; I intend it to be the last one I buy, God willing.  An investment, of sorts.

As for other "investments", I need to give my cat insulin shots every twelve hours, for his diabetes, which is in control and he is healthy, IF I do my part.

That’s an investment too.

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