Over the weekend, I saw someone who has stopped talking to me since I graduated college. I won’t bog you down with the details but our friendship ended over something trivial and (in the grand scheme of things) meaningless. There were many things I could have said to this person: Why are you being so ridiculous? Can we please be friends again? Never mind, I don’t want to be your friend if you’re going to act like this! But I didn’t. I thought I would get something out of this person if I was simply pleasant. That was not the case. I said "hello" and this person barely even looked at me. I would love to tell you that this didn’t faze me, that I went on with my day unperturbed and impenetrable. But it did faze me. I’m still sad about it today and I probably won’t ever truly be over it even though my mother assures me that I will never see this person again. It got me thinking:
If you could say one thing to someone that you care about (or cared about) and have no repercussions, what would it be?
I would have said I thought I was more important to you, you knew how important you are to me. I guess I was wrong..
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