Hi Everyone,
Anytime I ask myself, “Are you kidding me?!?!?!?” it is because someone in my life, on TV or in a book has said or done something that makes me want to scream! Although some days are better than others I am asking myself this more often because the holidays are upon us. Here is what I mean.
I don’t do drugs so when I first meet people who do and they ask me if I want to do some, I say no and they respect me and accept my decision never asking me again. End of story. BUT when someone offers me junk food, or something I wouldn’t normally eat, a lot of those people get angry or upset with me.
For whatever reason, they can’t seem to recognize that I am not rejecting them as an individual, I am rejecting what I am unwilling to do which just happens to be what they want. And then I always end up hearing, “I made this…” , “I brought this…” or “I did this…” A few minutes later someone has to go and console them because I hurt their feelings.
At this point I leave for a cigarette. Now recognize I am not guilting them to have a cigarette with me if they do or do not smoke. This is partly because I need to get away from them for two reasons.
One reason is if I stay with them for one more second, I’m going to tell them that they are an emotional wreck and a bottomless emotional pit that I have no interest in pleasing because I am not an emotional contortionist!
The other reason is that if I stay around them long enough, there is a high probability of my exploding which means that I will not be able to control what leaves my lips and whatever that would be, will not be pretty! This means that I will go for a personal attack on their character, or lack thereof. Reason #2 is open to anything, past, present or future!
Do I believe that some people will accept and respect my decision to not do or eat something? Yes! However, as we all know, there are some people that you can NEVER please!
If we nibble something, out of sheer etiquette, then we get, “Don’t you like it?” or, “You liked it last time…” Some people just don’t get it. And that is why I am starting to reject them as people.
A lot of us will be seeing people we love, like and would love to spend less time with. Some of those people can be annoying, while others will annoy us because they cannot see past their eye lids! Their thinking, as wrong headed as it is to us, is right to them.
So why am I blogging about this? Well, this is my way of saying if you don’t want to do something don’t do it! If you don’t want to eat something don’t eat it! Stop letting people make you feel uncomfortable because they are insecure and in my opinion, emotional infants. It is your holiday too!
At the same time, don’t let someone brow-beat someone else. It is inhumane! If you don’t stop someone from making someone else feel uncomfortable, you could be next! So think of standing up for someone as preventative action!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 😀
And thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
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