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How can you tell what a person believes? By what they do. I’ve stopped listening to people. Ok, that’s a lie. I’ve stopped believing people. Ok, that’s a lie too. I have a new filter in my mind. I listen to what people say. I watch what they do. I only believe in the intersection of the two.

The people who I keep as my friends have a high correlation between the things that they say they are going to do and the things that they actually do. I’m not talking about dreams and hopes. I’m talking about the every day things:

“I’ll meet you for lunch.”
“I’ll call you.”
“We should get together next month.”

If someone says these things and doesn’t follow through, it’s pretty obvious that they really don’t want me to be in their lives. No matter what they say, I believe their actions far more than their words.