M: The fact that you never tried to speak to me about it tells me you weren't really a friend, anyway.
J: There wasn't anything to figure out. I was all about the work, all the time. Since you weren't, I guess your confusion is understandable. Still irritating, though.
C: Funy how everyone thought you were just a schmoozer. You had way more going on than that.
N: WTF? After ten years, a one sentence email? I don't even know what to be sorry for, though I am, very, that you are no longer in my life.
S: It matters that you didn't follow through; it matters more that you were so dishonest about the whole thing once discovered.That part still matter most of all.
R: You never explained why you bailed on that trip. It still hurts.
M: I was worse than you could ever have imagined and for that I am sorrier than you will ever know.
B: I never really liked you or trusted you, so I shouldn't have been surrpised at what you did - but I was.
L: You are a type. A type that I would do better without. Do I send a signal that only types like you can hear?
M: I hate how much like you I sometimes sound.
S: I hate how much like you I sometimes feel.
Y: Please stop being so sure of what I'm thinking, you're almost never right and it irks me to no end. Do your ears only listen inward, or what?
E: I wish I'd asked you the difference between forgiveness and forgetting.
TIP:
Enter the amount, and click "Tip" to submit!
Yawp
Scheherezade
john atkinson
sagemerlin
Leeandra Nolting
ronnierayjenkins
Salon.com
Comments
Exactly!!
But of course, I never said them out loud, they were only thoughts.
I always wonder how someone 'knows' what I am thinking.
They never are right, it seems.
i hope you feel better, having got these off your chest. and i am very sorry for the one sentence email one. it seems the older i get, the less explicable humans become.
I say this all the time. But that reflection of me that people often cast my way is the best teacher. Of course, it works the other way too. I love it when I realize how much like someone I sometimes sound in a good way.
And, like Nana, I loved the statement to Y. Well, they are all great, and I can certainly sense why you might have kept some of these in your head.
Rated! kisses,
Marcela
Wish I had said thank you when I had the chance.
Now that it's out in the open, M. and S. just might........
Or maybe that's just me.
yeah, I'm stealing that one.
and the types hear me too- I seem to be saying "eat me, in small little bites, I'm completely chickenshit and will let you"
Why is it that some seem to be so sure of others' inner dialouge? Apparently we aren't allowed autonomy of thought.
And if they're so sure of what we're thinking...why are we having a conversation in the first place? Can think of many situations in my life where I could apply this. Great way of putting it!
Dang! Good piece Sandra..
Unlike you, I rarely leave money on the table where snappy comebacks are concerned. With a few notable exceptions, every time I've ever gotten myself in trouble, my mouth has been involved.
The notable exceptions usually involved chlorine bleach.