depends on you define using others for your highest good, it’s one thing to play the power game of life well and be in relationships where you can benefit from others relying on you, or being involved with you. There is an external, worldly, and self power in this for sure and I think it’s important to be able to do.
But I believe it’s more powerful to be in relationships where you and other people serve each other to create a synergy that is beyond what you could accomplish on your on, whether this is in romance, friendship, or business. Where there is independence but the kind of trust where your not getting anything over on anybody. This is very rare but I have a few friends like this and I don’t see it as me using them to serve my higher good. It’s more mutual.
I have friends who I do see it as to some degree I use them for my higher good, and try to benefit them as well, but that’s because the only people I can not do that with have to be incredibly savvy, clear headed, honest with their selfishness as a good thing, as well as there care for others, and real, most people…even one’s I like and are well adjusted on some level occur to me as out to lunch where it matters lol.