I didn't fail. I just tried many ways that didn't work

"ay gordo..." was the last thing she said before we leave, she used to say very ofthen that expression but this time the emphasis and corporal language was different, she wasnt showing sadness niether she was dissapointed, it was just different. With the time somehow you learn to read people behavior and understand his mood, feelings and thoughts, sometimes you don't need to see or talk to someone, with just a message or a mail you can understand his or her feelings, mood, etc.

I use this "tool" very often with my clients so i can have a better understanding of their needs or to know if i'm fullfillng their expectations about my work. It's a very usefull "tool", but if you use it in a personal level for example dates, sometimes it's a little bit more complicated.  But what happen when your associate or client is also your friend? i guess the results are a little bit tricky.

Last year i learned that there is no such thing as friendship in business, i've been doing business with some friends and in most of the cases didn't work and i end up lossing time and money. My father always gave me this advice: "if you can do it on your own, do it... if this work they'll take the credit too and ask for revenues but if this doesn't work.. they'll fall apart and leave you alone". At that time i didn't listen to him and he was right on something: they fall apart when the business didn't work. Since that first "failure" (it wasn't a failure at all, i learned a lot of things too...) i've had 5 or 6 unsuccessfull business experiences with friends and eventhough somehow i know that they'll fall apart in bad times, i still do.

The last weeks i've been thinking in that experiences, obviously i learned the lesson and of course my dad was right, but why did i end up doing business with them knowing that they'll fall apart? I guess the "ay gordo..." expression is the answer... it wasn't an anger, sadness or dissapointment expression, she was showing one thing: loyalty.