Power expires. Friendships shouldn’t
There is something profoundly disturbing about people who occupy fixed-term public offices or privileged corporate positions and suddenly develop amnesia about the relationships that existed before their appointments. The phone numbers remain, but the friendships disappear. People who once shared ideas, dreams and ambitions are suddenly considered too ordinary to associate with. Friends in entrepreneurship are ignored. Calls go unanswered. Requests for modest assistance are treated as personal inconveniences. Some even become unnecessarily arrogant, as though their appointments have permanently elevated them into another species.