Perspective

A good friend of mine will be transferring to London in January. She'll be staying with her current employer, but had to go through a complete interview process and was selected for a newly created role. I see this as wonderful, exciting opportunity for her. She's the biggest Anglophile I know, having lived in London for short periods of time for at least 3 times in the last 25 years.

We've been friends for a long time, and much of my family knows her and often asks about her. While IMing with my cousin last week, I wrote something like "[friend's name] is moving to London with her company." His immediate response was "that sucks." I know that he may not have known all the details and that she was vying for the opportunity. Still, it struck me as odd that his initial reaction was that it was a bad thing and something that she was being forced to do. What does this mean? Does he dislike his own job and employer so much that he thinks any move would be a bad thing? Does he love current situation so much that he can't imagine even wanting to live somewhere else, especially another country? Or was he just having the sort of day that would cause him to respond with "that sucks" to whatever I wrote?

Dana wrote something earlier this week about how so many people lack the trait of being flexible. I think this may be another example of exactly that. We all look at every situation with a different set of eyes and sometimes can't even fathom another person's point of view.