Well, over the course of the last two months I have been trying to work with my friend of the last (approx) 10 years to see if we can reconcile our friendship. The end result of that is this..
No.
I sent her an E-mail in March telling her that I felt that if she wasn't going to talk to me (She hasn't really spoken to me since her wedding in October) then there was no point in us calling ourselves "friends". She sent me an e-mail back telling me that she would love to hang out with me more but my moods and my sarcasm has gotten kind of hard to handle. That is where I got confused. She is telling me I have changed. I don't see that I have changed at all (except for the fact that my sense of humor has changed a bit to be more in tune with Canthor's. It makes it easier to find movies we can both watch..) When we were friends she was quiet and shy and didn't like being around drunk people. She was a nice person. Stubborn, just like her dad, but still a nice person. Since then she has gone from a size 14 or 16 down to a size 8, (so now that she's skinny) and she likes watching her husband get drunk at clubs. Hell, the fact that she even steps foot in a club is testament to the fact that she has altered dramatically since I was friends with her. Anyway...
So I waited a month, trying to figure out how to respond in a nice fashion to her e-mail. (mind you all of my correspondences with her have been polite and nice...except for the last one) When I finally wrote her back, I tried to get her to explain what it as I had done to offend her so that I could remedy it.
This was her response:
"Well, took you long enough. I've been going through much and lately it's gotten stressful. Work is boring and I think they're screwing me over.
I said I couldn't handle your moods and sarcasim anymore because it was true. I couldn't. You've just gotten so close minded about things that it's hard to talk with you, hang out with you, etc. You've gotten mad at my husband and I at times where we couldn't see why. It's just hard to talk to you sometimes. Sometimes I just get that feeling where I need to stay away from you.
Yes, I like to go to clubs, basically do things I didn't use to do. It's
fun. I find it fun. The club we go to is a safe club and going there with Dread makes it better. I've gotten into things that I like doing but never got to do them on a daily basis or every once in a while. That's clubbing. I get to see a whole new side to Genitch that I haven't seen before and I like it.
As far as becoming friends again, that's up tp you. You'll need to make the effort to be friends because I'm tired of trying."
(None of that is edited. Altho I did remove the last paragraph because it pertained to something off-topic. Spelling and grammatical errors are all hers.)
Anyway, her snippy-ass little response to my nice and polite e-mail made me mad. So I sent her an e-mail back with the last paragraph above highlighted in bright pink (she hates pink). This is what I wrote: (please note that some of the words - purple - have been edited for confidentiality purposes)
Sora
Those of you who have any familiarity with law firms may be able to tell that I work in one due to the word "Redacted". As you can tell I was mad, but I felt my response was justified. I didn't name-call and there is not a curse-word to be had. I have yet to receive a response back from her on the subject, so I'm assuming I either put her in her place or she accepts my response as a final answer in whether or not I want to be her friend. Either way our friendship is officially over, and I'm happier for it. I no longer feel that I'm obligated to worry about her or watch over her. If she wants to screw up her life and end up on the streets then so-be-it. It's not my problem anymore and, honestly, hasn't been since she married her husband.
For those of you thinking that this is kind of vindictive to place her correspondence and mine on my blog, I have this to say:
The only reason I did that is so that people could see the text of each e-mail and judge the hard-facts, not just a summary. Things have a tendency to be mis-construed when one person is summarizing what another person said. It also leads to the wondering of "Is this what really happened or is this a sugar-coated version?". Now you may read and decide for yourself.
A couple days later I got onto MSNmessenger with the intention of blocking her handle (I did in the end btw) and an old friend from high school started talking to me. We ended up talking until 4 in the morning. I'm glad I was able to talk to her again. She's really nice.
Anyway, things are going alright at work...I'm not in danger of being fired...yet. On Friday we had a bomb threat drill and my manager made us walk down 17 flights of stairs. yay...O.o It wasn't that bad and it was good exercise. Although we may have another one at some point, but it will be given without warning because a bunch of people took the elevators down about 10mins before the drill was supposed to start and since homeland security was watching, they'll probably make us do it again properly.