The Ultimate Entrepreneur

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Life goes on, bra
La la how the life goes on
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Life goes on, bra
La la how the life goes on
The Beatles, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

You know how it is when you go to the same coffee or sandwich shop and you see the same folks working there week after week and sometimes year after year. Then one day, Poof! They are gone and you have to start all over building that rapport. Sometimes you feel, screw it, all that effort, and i just don't feel like starting over, but ultimately you probably do...I mean, what are you going to do, have a sour puss everytime you walk in.

Its gets a bit stranger when you have a rapport with the folks and then one day you walk in and they pretend like they never knew you. Or you may even get the feeling that you are bothering them by just trying to be friendly. It is as if they had amnesia and sort of forgot they knew you or at least forgot your entire history together.

Now, when this happens to one of your long time friends, dare I say, it is stranger than fiction?!?!. I have known this one guy for like 20 years, we live in the same city, and slowly but surely he is disappearing from mine and all of his other friends lives. One day, he is social as hell and the next he simply stops returning phone calls and emails. When prodded, he claims there is nothing wrong and that he is just really focused on a work project. This work project has now been going on for over 2 years. The guy works for himself - all day every day. When he does take a break, it is typcially for very short time periods before he has a reason to get back to things.

I wonder aloud if this guy will ever get back in touch with his friends or if this work project will go on for decades to come giving him rationale to distance himself from his friends and the world around him. What do you think? Depression, Anxiety, Obsession? Positive, Negative, Neutral? Hates his friends? Completely normal state of affiars?