Episode 519: Season 10 Finale

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[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So here we are at the end of another season.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is my season finale and it is earlier like I said it would be.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to end my seasons every four months.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And to be quite honest, I could have ended it a month ago because it's been a busy season for me.

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of behind the scenes things have been going on and I really haven't had the time to dedicate to my episodes.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I like to batch record for a couple of weeks at a time and this season I've only been able to do one week at a time.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_01]: To many of you as part of the, like oh well let's still a lot not to me.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I feel I felt rushed.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't really put enough energy into this.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to end this season today.

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Now as far as when I'm coming back, I don't have a date but I know it'll be next month.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_01]: So sometime in October you will hear from me.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Dre's Point of View. I am your host, Andrea and in 10 minutes or less. I will be giving you a topic that I feel passionate about.

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[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought about the topic every season I do this.

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_01]: What I should talk about and it wasn't as difficult.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: It was just a matter of which topic I should discuss and I talked it over with a close friend of mine and said which one.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_01]: How should I end this season? And she gave me a suggestion, which was good but I don't think it should be a season finale.

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Topic. I'll do it more of a just an episode because I don't really want to end on a somber note.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just going to end on some reflection. And this is about my experience with people this year but especially this season and maybe you can learn something, take something from it or give me some suggestions as well.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's about people that you've known for a long time. Let's say 10 plus years and you haven't seen them in a while and then when you see them again, you've got certain expectations or they expect certain things from you.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's say I met one of you 10 years ago.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And we don't really, we might send each other a DM but we don't really hang out because we don't live near each other.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: We work together maybe. Okay back then and then you come across me again 10 years later would you expect the same draia would you figure that I changed?

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_01]: You go off the memories that you knew me right but you wouldn't go casting aspersions making assumptions on my character right.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I've had that a couple of times this year this season and it was very interesting how people think that you are the same person that you were at there is no growth.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you find out that they're the ones who really changed but not really for the better. It reminds me of if you've seen that movie Bridesmaids where they had a conversation I can't even think of the characters but they had a conversation about do people really change?

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Do they evolve or they pretty much stay the same?

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And I had to take a pause on that. I'm like well, I would think that people would evolve right?

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think too many people say the same. I'd like to think that I don't stay the same. Those that really know me like really really know me know how I am.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean like my dreams, my fears how I face certain topics just really know me. Can really speak about me like how long or how at what point do you get to speak on someone's character? How long do you have to know them to do so?

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I went to a friend's birthday party. I met him, let's say 25, 30 years ago. Okay, we don't keep in touch often.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I may go visit once a year, once or twice a year. Not just him but dealers in the city where I just have to go visit and we just don't. I mean, he has his life. I've got mine.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And when we link up, he likes to make certain assumptions but I can tell you outside of who he knows, who we both know together.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Neither one of us could name five things about each other. Fast forward to another friend of mine who I've known for almost as long.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_01]: We went to college together. We joined an organization.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: We keep in touch.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_01]: We met up again this year after some years and she's consistent, I'm consistent. We bonded like we never left. You have some friends like that, right?

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Where it's, you still have that feel good. They're consistent but I don't find it being that many. Like I didn't know what to expect when I saw her.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, I was going off of the last time that we met. So, years ago and I wasn't disappointed yet I met up with a few people this year and I got to tell you I was disappointed.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not really worried the same person but they, I guess they assumed that I was.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: In a way which was pretty disappointing. I mean, I'd like to think that I've changed some. So it just, I don't know, it just really made me think how what we expect from people.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Like what do you expect from someone? How well do you know someone? That's it then. Are you going to live with someone? You could travel with someone. Can you say that you know them?

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Not necessarily, right? But you definitely can't say you've known someone that you don't keep in touch with either. You haven't seen someone in X amount of years but you're assuming that they are the same person.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_01]: So I wonder how those of you treat those who you've known and keep in touch with or those that you've known and don't. Like we all have those, let's say let's go ahead and say those Facebook friends.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_01]: We just have as friends on Facebook but we, you may hear from them just around your birthday or a holiday and that's it. You don't really know you see their highlight real but you don't know much about them.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And there are people in your life like that you don't know you aren't a clear acquaintances. So I don't know if you can call them a friend and then of course you have different levels of coworkers.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And I've been reading a lot of topics about coworkers too about how they're not your friends. You just have to work with them.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Some are and then there's different levels of them you can't really even know we spend a majority of our time at work.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: How well do we know our coworkers?

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Right? So it's really just more of a reflected episode than anything else. Just think about that your closest friends who you consider your closest friends.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you can name some things about them like why are they your friends what how like what makes them your friends.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Like how well do you really know these people?

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[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: View about this episode. I hope you enjoyed this season.

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And I hope that you will stick around and keep following me to find out when I will return.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_01]: As always, I thank you for listening. This has been Drey's point of view.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, let me not end it because I do have or do I have a positive new story to wrap this up with.

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought I had it, but I guess not this was totally unscripted. I didn't want to script the finale.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So I do thank you for listening and I hope you enjoyed this and just just keep that in mind for people that you better in your life.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you can ask why you may be keep them in your life or they just place holders.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I thank you for listening. This has been Drey's point of view.