A rant on friendship

I know I havent written in a while.....but today Im mad. Im mad at how there is SO LITTLE genuine friendship in this world.....and Im mad at the way people treat and think of other people.

This morning I got an email from a woman who had contacted me looking for a penpal...remember, she contacted ME via a website i had put a christian penpal profile on. We had emailed a few times back and forward, I was suckered into genuinely believing she wanted a penpal from Australia to chat to, and I was more than willing...she seemed like a really nice person. Today her real motive was revealed. THIS email made no mention of the personal contact we had just had...it was about her as a representative for some get rich quick scheme, that had now reached Australia, posed to as me pointed "questions" about my financial future, and some statistics about this scheme to consider. I scanned the email, heartsick that this was her reason to contact me...she wasnt interested in being a penpal...she wasnt interested in being friends...she just wanted another notch in her economic belt...she just wanted another customer to further her own interests and increase her bank account.

Is this what it has come to? people claiming to be reaching out in friendship and within a few "gennuine" looking responses instead reaching into other gullible people's pockets? I am INCENSCED that people feel it is their right to use people in such a fashion....since when did ANYONE give them that right. How can ANYONE think that that is ok....that trying to cooerce a person with friendly hellos and then trying to use them for their own advantage is somehow ethical behaviour??? I just dont understand how thinking that is ok is even possible!!!!!!!

THEN later on, I saw on old friend was online, and judging by her sign in she had just had a baby. I love this woman, I really do, but every time we speak she barely asks about what is happening in my family...shes just interested in telling people HER news. She never asks how my husband is, how our life is, what our job is like or what we even DO 
for a living...shes just interested in telling others about what is going on with her, and to me thats kinda self centred and narrow minded. We spoke briefly, and I was surprised to see her actually as me how we were going, but to terminate the conversation straight after I answered.

Where are the people who genuinely want to know how your life is? Where are the people who want to share their views JUST as much as they want to hear yours? Where are the people who are concerned for your wellbeing, who ask about your life. Dont get me wrong, just recently I have made such friends and I am grateful....I have known for a long time that alot of my friends have really not been as caring to me as I have been to them...there has always been a difference in the level that others treat me as to how I treat them....but I have started to see that there are people out there who are different....people, if you can find them, who DO care just as much...people who DO ask how your'e going...people who WANT to be friends and dont just use you for whatever they can get out of you...but they're few and far between...VERY few and far between....

And that makes me angry.....and that makes me sad.