I'm gonna do something I very, very rarely do: I'm gonna talk about events going on in my online life. Today's topic: losing friendships
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And now, according to my former friend, I'm persona non grata merely because I happened to leave this workshop over priciples at the same time as another did in a more boisterous fashion.
I just ran across this, over a month late, and I have to say, I feel heartsick too. I was a part of it, as you well know, and I feel great respect and gratitude toward the people who put principle above comfort and convenience in that matter.
I think I could have been less . . . boisterous myself, but I had already sat quietly while several of my friends were eased (given the boot) out of there half a year earlier. I should have left then.
I was told, point blank, that no, they weren't mad at me per se; but, because of the rather noisy way in which one of the other people who left the workshop handled their departure, and because my departure happened at the same time, I was a part of that same noisy departure and thus had violated her spirit of friendship. She "respected my decision" to leave, but wanted nothing more to do with me because I "
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Sorry that the fall-out continues for you.
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I just ran across this, over a month late, and I have to say, I feel heartsick too. I was a part of it, as you well know, and I feel great respect and gratitude toward the people who put principle above comfort and convenience in that matter.
I think I could have been less . . . boisterous myself, but I had already sat quietly while several of my friends were eased (given the boot) out of there half a year earlier. I should have left then.
I was told, point blank, that no, they weren't mad at me per se; but, because of the rather noisy way in which one of the other people who left the workshop handled their departure, and because my departure happened at the same time, I was a part of that same noisy departure and thus had violated her spirit of friendship. She "respected my decision" to leave, but wanted nothing more to do with me because I " ( ... )
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