Why are people so intent on making your life so horrible?
I went out for Christmas Dinner with so called friends. Firstly it started at 7pm, i got there late, 7.15, they had already started eating?
I was greeted with - We couldn’t wait -. Not one hello or text to say are you close by because we are hungry and wanted to start eating. Nope – we couldn’t wait.
This did not start me on a good step for the rest of the night. Now i am not a big drinker at the best of times so i decided that i would drive into town, park and drive home so I was not going to drink. So you can guess now that my night was just slowly taking a low dive!
There were ten people on the table aged between 24 and 50, and two girls had taken their partners. We had gone to see a live band play so it wasn’t the best night for conversation as you couldn’t hear your own voice little own the person talking to you.
These friends, whom i now refer to as acquaintances I have known most of them for 11 years, we have been through troubled times as well as good ones but last night topped it off. I have made a conscience effort that i never will be going out with them ever again. I don’t get along with one person there for reasons that perhaps i may share later, so they deliberately saved a seat for me next to her, just so they could laugh during the night. So i didn’t play their game just sat and talked to the other person on my right. When my closer friend (she is young and not yet influenced by their horrible ways) went to the toilet i went with her, when she wanted to go outside to smoke, i went with her. Needless to say she was then asked repeatedly, ‘Are you having a good night?’ To be followed up by, ‘Don’t complain if you are not because you can make your own fun’.
So I ask, why are people so nasty? Is it to make their own lives seem much better?
The night did not get much better 2 of the girls sat sour faced all night, one is pregnant and for once is not drinking, however she has only told two people who are there so the rest are asking why are you not drinking etc etc. The other one I am sure for some good reason didn’t drink, dance, smile or talk to anyone apart from her partner.
Nevertheless I danced, smiled and had a so so time, despite best efforts by others. The departing word from one was ‘I don’t need to rely on others to have a good time’ Directed at me and my friend.
Not only did her comments and actions hurt me but it did hurt my younger friend, whom is much wiser and nicer then any of the others. Such spiteful people do they question why their lives are so horrible and lonely?
To top off the night I parked in the hotel carpark and failed to notice that it closed at midnight so needless to say my car looked like it was going to locked in there until Monday (they didn’t open Sunday). Until along came an employee who had parked her car in there and had a swipe card to let me in and out.
So a stranger was kinder to me for 5 mins than my friends, sorry – acquaintances, who i have known for a third of my life were.
