Various Attitudes

I keep wondering how people have various attitudes and different thoughts on the same situation they face in everyday life. I am a member of three mailing groups - one of them is my previous company's colleagues of Delhi who came to Bangalore and joined different companies and learnt to stay away from their hometown. We have some planned get togethers of this group in 3-4 months but people come to these get-togethers not to meet friends but to see how others are performing in their different companies and how big moolahs they are making. I attended some of them and later stopped visiting these meeting as I find it completely foolish and non-productive agenda. How does it make a difference in my life if one of my colleague has got promoted twice in last year. It is good if it inspires me but what is the use if we are meeting our old friends and colleagues with a jealousy and competition in mind. I have seen this in other groups too...We all are working very hard in this competitive environment but why to compare...we can learn new things by sharing and caring but nothing is going to help if we keep looking at other's progress with a competition. Some of my friends have stopped talking to me just because I am taking care of family and not my career. Everyone has right to choose his/her priorities in life. Moreover I am a better judge of my life. Suggestions are welcome but being opionionated is really makes me irritated...hope we all learn to be happy together without being bothered about the social status of our friends, neighbours and colleagues.