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Saturday, November 12, 2011
kindest letter insert ever
My friend Kim did something so encouraging recently, that I thought I'd share the joy. She knew I was feeling down from grieving and having negative representations of my character presented to me recently by ex-friends. She had already cheered me up immensely just by assuring me in a letter that any conflicts that might arise between us in future years would be resolved via marshmallow guns at dawn. But then, last week I got this in the mail:
I won't go into the kind things she said, but it was so refreshing to have a remedy on hand after being so worn down of late. With each little note, I smiled and laughed and said, "Really?!" So encouraging. The correspondence begun in passed notes in 9th grade has given me so much joy over the years. Even the monkeys here understand that they need to stop pulling on my right arm when I'm writing Kim. But this little speck of kindness, well, it meant so much. Thanks, Kim!
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I've never had a friend like that...what a blessing for you. I'm sorry your x-friends are being so snarky. That's rather unfortunate
Well, they were so snarky. It's not as though I talk to them anymore. But for someone to call me socially deviant because I said the F word a lot when a fly was buzzing me in the eyes the day after I saw my dad alive for the last time, that just smarts. I agreed that cussing at flies, even with just another adult present, was not great behavior. But drawing character inferences under the circumstances smarted a lot. Especially since it was implied by both recent ex-friends that I am likely to lose all of my friends due to my alleged tendencies (cruelty, social deviance, hateful behavior towards children[?!]).
The more time I put between us, the more I am glad that they went on their ways to be happy apart from me, since we could clearly not be happy together if they think so ill of me.
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