There were a trio of younger folk who'd been bailed out and mentored by me for years. They got on their feet and successful, and I always loved seeing them though they seldom had time for me. I knew the song Cat's Cradle and figured I understood that.
Then came the hardest time of my adult life, and I reached out in a group chat for a little support myself. I got snapped at, very hurtful things were said. That was all one of them, their ringleader. But neither of the other two said anything in that chat or reaching out separately. I felt very betrayed that there wasn't even a quiet reaching out when it was so obvious I needed it.
I'd never anticipated this. I was left feeling raw, betrayed. The silence o those who hadn't said the nasty things was in some ways louder than the perpetrators.
I did not acknowledge the excited waving greeting that thoroughly nonplussed me last year. I'm sure I'll see them again this spring at an annual event we all go to. But I do not pretend to know them. I never did.
— FriarMir
Then came the hardest time of my adult life, and I reached out in a group chat for a little support myself. I got snapped at, very hurtful things were said. That was all one of them, their ringleader. But neither of the other two said anything in that chat or reaching out separately. I felt very betrayed that there wasn't even a quiet reaching out when it was so obvious I needed it.
I'd never anticipated this. I was left feeling raw, betrayed. The silence o those who hadn't said the nasty things was in some ways louder than the perpetrators.
I did not acknowledge the excited waving greeting that thoroughly nonplussed me last year. I'm sure I'll see them again this spring at an annual event we all go to. But I do not pretend to know them. I never did.
— FriarMir
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