The first mistake I made was letting people call me things like 'Lord' and 'Master'. I hated authority when I started on this path; I wanted to tear it all down, not to become one. But they seemed to like it, and I stopped fighting it, and after that, it wasn't long before I enjoyed it.
The second mistake I made was not paying the most attention to the one friend I have who always knew when I was deceiving myself and letting my ego run roughshod all over the place.
I didn't manage to alienate him, but I didn't take him seriously enough, and I should have gone to him and asked for his opinion more often, because I knew that he'd been trained not to offer it; we both grew up as slaves, but I was a miner and a gladiator, and he was a 'personal assistant' with a side order of bodyguard.
If you have even one friend who can smell your scrapwaste at a distance that can be measured in parsecs, cultivate them. If you don't have one, make one. You'll need them.
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The second mistake I made was not paying the most attention to the one friend I have who always knew when I was deceiving myself and letting my ego run roughshod all over the place.
I didn't manage to alienate him, but I didn't take him seriously enough, and I should have gone to him and asked for his opinion more often, because I knew that he'd been trained not to offer it; we both grew up as slaves, but I was a miner and a gladiator, and he was a 'personal assistant' with a side order of bodyguard.
If you have even one friend who can smell your scrapwaste at a distance that can be measured in parsecs, cultivate them. If you don't have one, make one. You'll need them.