"Sweet Silence"
06 / 08 / 02
General
It amazes me sometimes how people often disregard the simplest solution to their problems in the name of some impossible hope.
My older sister is, to be blunt, a bitch. To anyone that's ever seen me RP Saresh, or hear me talk about the person she's based on, this is not news. I know she's a bitch, my other siblings know she's a bitch, mom knows she's a bitch...
...she's even admitted to being a bitch. How much more proof do you need?
So why the hell, when given all this evidence, does mom still hope the girl has changed? Well, not changed, but damnit, I certainly wouldn't talk to someone who does nothing but causes stress in my life.
I don't know a lot of people IRL simply because I don't like stress. Unless you're fortunate enough to get to that point of being 'good friends', getting to know people is a tiring process that, more often than not, never works out the way you want. (Note, even a 'good friend' can turn out to be nothing more but a stress factor, if one is not careful.)
And it's not that I want to be antisocial, it's just easier. Because when people do something that should or could hurt me, I don't get hurt, I get angry. Then my blood pressure goes up, I get violent, yadda yadda yadda. It's something I realise I don't need in my life. So, as solitary as it can get for me, I keep people at a distance.
Of course, I'm not in an area that lends itself well to finding like-minded people, either.
But why? Why would one knowingly continue to allow any single person stay in their life when all they give is grief? That I don't understand, and probably never will.
I have a one, and two strike rule. One strike for anyone I'm not close to, nor related to. Two strikes rule is for a very small group of people, but at the same time, the initial relationship will never be the same.
Harsh? Yes. Effective? Immensely. Stress-reducer? Quite. And I avoid or cut stress wherever I can.
Next job to help with stress, get a cat...
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I'm afraid I'm as hopeless as your mother.
And, uh, that's all I have to say, really.
( 6:34 pm )