Monday, October 26, 2015

Olive branches and Al Qaeda



      Relationships go both ways and communication is the bridge. The saddest of all relationships is when a party makes no effort to communicate their frustration and lash out at others.
You don't like people who eat chicken nuggets? Great. If they are your friend and you value your relationship with them, tell them and work something out. Lashing out or snapping at them is not telling them. 

      If you lash out and don't even make an effort to tell them, I am sorry, you can't expect other people to read your mind. It says a lot more about you than the person who upsets you. You don't care enough to even bother making the effort to communicate when there was ample opportunity.
You blame others for your inability to communicate and they should just not piss you off. Right, if they knew they wouldn't. You know how I know? Because they care enough about how you feel to not do it to hurt your feelings. You're the one who is feeble and dramatic and lack the basic ability to communicate. Frankly, you don't care enough to tell them why they upset you or that they upset you at all.

      I have often taken responsibility for others, for the things that they do and the way they act. Frankly I am tired of having people in my life where I have to extend the olive branch every time they can't take responsibility for how they feel and communicate. 

      You can't expect me to jump and skip every time something upsets you and expect me to read your mind or off hand comments. If you think that's communicating, you're going to be disappointed. I still don't know why what I did piss you off. I can make some educated guess but frankly that's not how any relationship works. Be it professional or friendship. 

       I have consider taking the higher road and have a conversation with her. But after thinking about it, I realize its not worth it. Why spend your effort on someone who couldn't be bothered to put any into her interaction with you? Why give a monkey a diamond? Or a blind man a tv? I apologize right away when I realize my mistake (obviously, still don't know why it is a mistake though. Suppose I could try and read her precious mind!) and make it clear that I did not intend to upset her. The response? Then don't piss me off. Good, you just describe your temper as a crying baby (don't wake him up or he will cry), a bomb (don't set it off), or virtually anything that shifts the blame to me.

     A bomb and a baby have a few things in common, neither are capable of taking on any responsibility. A baby cannot stop crying because that is the only way to communicate. A bomb is an inanimate object. So what are you saying? Sorry I can't control my temper? Sorry I am not adult enough to take any responsibility? 

       Either way, its a lost cause. There are better things and people to spend time on. These people forget that they are not perfect and how much other people put up with them. Trust me, this person has a looot going. Yet all it took was one small thing. I don't usually count the amount of times I extend an olive branch to al queda however in this situation, I don't think I want anyone in my life who only expects others to make them happy and refuse to take any responsibility and be an equal in it.

      The worst part isn't someone lashing out at you, the worst part is realizing this whole time, they didn't think you care about them enough to not want to hurt them and have the best intentions.
I don't hate this person, I simply have no room in my life for people who can't communicate properly and blame others "for pissing them off". Instead of looking inwards and wonder why and how they should react, they blame others.  If I can read minds, I wouldn't be here talking to you.