Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. I think K kind of hates me. At least according to a close mutual friend. It all has to do with emails that have been exchanged between her and C, all of which I've seen or , in C's case, helped write. It's to the point where K apparently isn't coming to my birthday party because she is so mad at me. A close friend who I've known for ...eight years. I know she's not coming, and according to that same other friend, that is the reason she's not coming. I found this out about two hours after I sent K an email inviting her to youth group on Saturday night because I wanted to see her before she left for break. ...I feel so fucking stupid. There are no words left. None...at all.
This has gone so far past being about a fucking tent. So, so far.
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i'm sorry to hear. what
i'm sorry to hear. what happened between you guys? [if i may ask]
*breathes* Ok. So my friend,
*breathes* Ok. So my friend, K, wants to organize a banquate in order to raise money for the prevention of genocide in Darfur. She gathered a group of about ten or twelve people, which included myself and another friend of ours, C. K's original idea was to have it in a hall, which was actually really cheap. Then, she started to consider the idea of an outdoor tent instead. We took a vote, and there weren't any major objections, though C didn't vote for the tent. I went home, talked to my parents about it, talked to C about it and started to see how it wasn't a very good idea. The next day, C approached K and told her that he didn't like the tent idea. I'm not entirely sure what happened there, but she was angry at him and said that he was projecting a bunch of negative energy. On Friday, we all had a meeting and C and I tried to voice our concerns about the tent and a few other things. She sort of glossed over them, and took it straight to another vote, in which C and I were overruled. That night, C was angry because he felt that K had basically ignored him at the meeting, so he wrote her an email explaining that he felt that there were some issues with the tent and that he felt that the committee wasn't getting to make very many decisions about the entire process. I editted it for him (C tends to be a tad less diplomatic than K can handle). Either she just got the email Monday night or C didn't send it until then, because she was fine with me Saturday (my name was only once briefly mentioned in the email), but she knew I opposed the tent. Today, she pretty much ignored me all day. At lunch, she came over to C and oppoligized for the anger of her response to his email (which was pretty rude, once I read it). In third period, she told me she couldn't come to my party Friday night, and didn't say another word to me all class, but I just thought she was talking to other people/doing work. So after school, I sent her an email mentioning one other concern about the tent, and another inviting her to hang out Saturday night. I then talked to a neutral friend on the phone, who told me that K had told her she wasn't coming to my party because she was pissed at me. Naturally, I was like..."what the fuck?!" which then progressed on to "I'm a horrible person." C sent her an email basically saying that he still wanted to be friends, and to just tell him if she didn't want him on the committees anymore. She repleid to my email about Saturday night just now, saying "I actually can come Friday, but am choosing not to in light of recent events." and something about not being able to trust me anymore. This totally through me for a loop, because I don't even know why she's angry at me now. She knew I opposed some of her ideas, and said that I was doing it in a constructive manner on Friday. Now...I don't even know.
sounds like she's taking
sounds like she's taking things waaaayyy too harshly. i mean i can see maybe being aggravated at opposition [because that's just how people are] but to be totally pissed off is just... well, frankly, dumb. she's kind of unnecessarily stuck a stick up her own ass, and i would just leave her alone until she pulls it out on her own.
Eh...
Sounds like she doesn't want a committee, she wants to run everything, and you're questioning her leadership.
Ultimately, though, she's the one that's being petty and stupid over this thing. And as for the friendship, just let her stew, and when she's calmed down, you can decide whether to accept her back into your circle or not.
Bad relationships don't get better with age, so if she flies that off the handle and starts trash-talking you, is this someone you want to keep in your life for the long haul? I know it seems impossible, but I interact with... hmm, basically no one I went to high school with, until I am home in Pennsylvania for a visit. So, you see them every day now, but that disappears in many cases.
And if it does end, sounds like it's all on her, so nothing to even get upset about. Your friend went crazy and shut you out of her life.
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