not-so-nice friends and lovers
By shmeedia
@shmeedia (1044)
Canada
November 15, 2009 5:14pm CST
ever date someone who you later discovered was only using you for your artistic or business merit? not getting what they want from you, they then completely tell you to f-off, and you then see them haggling with others to "help" them either share a gallery space, or co-rent a studio, or fund their new business? it quite disgusts me.
this has happened a few times in my life, once by someone i dated, once by a best friend and once by an artistic collaborator.
and when i say collaborator, i mean someone who *I* thought i could collaborate with, but *they* thought they could suck me dry for my contacts, spit me out, and then have the nerve to ask if i would pay half the rent for their studio because nobody else in their right mind would pay what they were asking.
i like to think that most people are nice, and have good intentions, but it's teh bad seeds like these that really hurt our image on teh whole as human beings.
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2 responses
@Apple3Cranberry (678)
• United States
16 Nov 09
that is quite a dilemna! and in the art industry, i bet it is hard.
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
15 Nov 09
I'm fortunate enough to not have the chance to experience such. I guess, I'd truly be angry if someone would do that to me. But, I do have a question though, why did those people want to do that to you? Are you rich in the first place? I guess money and power does that to you.
As for me, I don't have any assets nor fame to be considered as a stepping stone for something great for others.
@shmeedia (1044)
• Canada
21 Nov 09
i am not rich, no....that's what makes it even more annoying! at least if i was rich, i could tell myself, well, they were money-grubbers and i had the money they wanted. but in my case, i don't know why they THOUGHT i could win them fame and fortune (or whatever).
maybe i've had some bad luck meeting very low class people who thought i was 'higher up' than they are, so i became a target? i don't know. i admit i am a resourceful person...maybe others who are more lazy than i am, think they can swing on my curtails, while i do the work FOR them? i just.don't.know.
