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David in Hong Kong
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Date Posted: Saturday, April 26 2003, 8:21:08 GMT ( - 8 )
Well, after more than a year, I attempted a reconciliation of sorts. Or more exactly, I attempted resuming civil interchange with someone.
This someone and I had a major falling out after having been close friends. The falling out occurred when I foolishly allowed money to enter the picture, altho there were other equally divisive issues at the time.
Now this person is launching a new and hopefully happy phase of life, so I offered a civil and polite olive branch, which might have not arrived as intended.
So I posted congratulations on a MB that this person is active on, and asked if he had received the email I had attempted to send.
And extended another minor olive branch by making an inocous but positive comment on another thread of the same MB.
Well, I must admit that I hoped for some mellowing or maturing of my ex-friend and the owner of that MB in the many months that have passed since the ugliness.
Too bad. My two olive branches were deleted and presumably my email to my ex-friend will never be acknowledged.
I believe strongly that the money he owes me will be required from him by some working of karma in the future, and I hope will not be stripped from him in too painful a manner. I have learned my own expensive lesson about that in the process as well, and that's an ok thing, I suppose. Although in my anger and hurt earlier on, I had debated pasting the email in which this person acknowledged receipt of the loan. Nah. He certainly and definately knows he owes the money and is witholding it for selfish reasons. But if he doesn't, karma will take care of the imbalance, and there's nothing wrong with my initially having been generous. That part hasn't been spoiled.
The MB owner seems to be as self-involved, rigid, narcissistic, and self-righteous as ever. That's sad for him, but not really all that important to me in the bigger picture.
I post about it here not as a vent, really, but more of a sad realization that some narrow-minded zealots don't grow and mature and change. Even as they see themselves as 100% correct and infallible, they can possibly seem well-intended to others who don't question them too closely. And hence they can be suggestable, gullible, and easily swayed.
I also post in hope that people who tend to follow this self-righteous person a bit too zealously and unthinkingly will somehow learn to question their fundamentalist tendencies. Ayatollahs are not confined to the Middle East, and people's minds can be swayed by these people if they don't quite have enough confidence of their own to think for themselves.
Too bad really...such wasted potential.
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I would never kick a man's ass, NEVER! I have some knowledge of human anatomy and I know better places to kick.
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