Pah-Lease!

I don’t claim to be anywhere near perfect nor do I always make the best decisions for my life. But just as with most people, I can look at someone else’s f*ed up situation and see all the things that need to change. For example, have you ever had a friend that refused to let go of someone or something that was soooo not worthy of them? I will admit that if you’re not in it everyday you are on the outside looking in. But you don’t have to get too close to crap to smell the stench. I do remember some story about a girl and her friend. The friend was so against the girl’s relationship because she had to endure all the hard times with her friend. Then, ol’ girl in relationship was telling her friend that she was only calling her when things were bad so she really didn’t know how good their relationship really was. I say whatever! Hell, just don’t call me anymore because either way my opinion won’t change. Our lives are just that, OURS! It’s your to live however you see fit. But pah-lease, don’t say nothing else to me about anything you should have been walked away from! I remember some years back when I put myself on an emotional rollercoaster with someone who shall remain nameless :-). A friend of mine really hurt my feelings until I realized he was so right. I’m going off about whatever the latest thing was about the dude and my friend just cuts me off! “Akanke, I don’t want to hear about this anymore. I can’t take it. Nothing changes. You say you’re done and you don’t stop. I refuse to continue to listen.” I couldn’t believe my friend was unwilling to hear about my problems. But I realized later that he made so much since. Like one of my sister’s says… you run to answer your phone and trip over a book you have in the floor and hurt your toe. You say, damn, I need to move that book. Next day, you going to answer the door, trip over the same book. Next day, on your way to the restroom, you trip over the same book…. At what point do you realize, “I NEED TO PICK UP THE DAMN BOOK!!?
I have some friends that would say, you’re just supposed to play along while I’m being ridiculous. I can’t do it. I do enough dumb shit of my own. I can’t ride that one out with you. I just can’t! It’s like, when you hurt, I hurt and I can’t stand seeing my friends go through crap.

 
Ok, I’ll talk about me next time :-)

***People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ~Eleanor Roosevelt***
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