Objectives

This be my most cynical group of words ever, but I don't actually care. This is a piece of advice. It's great if you think that people are inherently good and they just make mistakes, everyone can be changed...blah blah blah. I beg to differ my friends. I've always known, but it was put into perspective for me in my theater class last semester. My professor so eloquently said, "No conversation worth having does not have an objective." He's right. Let me give you an example. Blogging is a conversation, although particularly one-sided. My objective is to get all you lovely people in cyberspace to listen to what I have to say. That's not a particularly malicious objective. However, there are people out there that just want to use you and pretend that it's okay. It's not. Just because you're a kind human being, doesn't mean you should be pushed around.

Are you who you say you are?

We should take a lesson from our dear old Queen B, Miss Blair Waldorf. Through all her maniacal scheming and uncontrolled compulsions to meddle in things that do not concern her, she can teach us a very important lesson about love and loyalty: You never give up on the people you love. 
How many times have we called someone our best friend and abandoned them when they really needed us? No one would want to admit it, but we all know we've done it. I'm sorry if you out there believe I am a little too cynical for you, but I only see the things people really are. Most of us are so stuck in Kohlberg's Conventional stage of moral reasoning that we do not see how important it is to be there for the people you claim you love.
Well, that bears the question: do you really love those people that you've so vehemently claimed to love? That's something to think about.