Silvana The Great

Last night I got verbally assaulted by a person I considered a close friend. It only started because another friend was about to show us a video made my college humor called “Mitt Romney Style” and so this close friend turns around and says to me “You would like this video.”. I was confused and just said “what? yeah I’ve never seen it and college humor is usually good”. Then he just went off on me claiming that I have said that Obama would pay for MY school which he had read on my Facebook post. All I said was hey if you can find it on my facebook I’ll own up to it, but I can assure you those words are not there. Well he didn’t find it but he did try to tear apart all the posts he did find where I was posting my political opinion. I have never been yelled at so bad by anyone, not even my parents. Feeling like I was just in a bad place I said “I rather talk when you haven’t had a drink, I more than welcome listening to your opinion and I thought that as a good friend you would too. I knew coming into this house everyone was a republican, but have you ever heard me yell at them or question their opinions? You’re yelling at me right in my face just to take out your anger. For you information, I never gave away my vote and if you would’ve read my posts thoroughly you would have seen my huge post where I told the world that the only reason I picked on Mitt was because I’m a bully and I find him to be an easy target. Guess what I voted the 5% guy anyways. How you’re being right now has me close to tears.” That’s when I started tearing up and left. When I started my car he came out apologizing on his knees for making me feel that way. Although I took his apology I still know this incident could have been avoided. I’m the kind of person who loves to learn, so if you’re willing to sit down with me and teach me the numbers I will be more than happy. Why? Because I will feel informed and not like I’m talking out of my ass. This was a good friend who couldn’t respect my opinion as a friend? An opinion which I have never directly expressed to him because I would never attempt to shove it down his throat. Last night was a huge disappointment regarding my good friend. Isn’t sad when you think you knew someone better than that?

The irritating feeling I get from people who don’t know where they are going in life makes me feel like they are holding me back at times. I spoke about this with Ivan the other day, someone with a foggy view of their present and future seems to be unhealthy and we both decided we would try to associate with those who have positive outlooks. It might seem a little selfish, but if someone can’t help themselves first how do they expect to help another? I’ve always enjoyed quoting Maslow when it came to this sort of thing. Certain people just don’t seem to care until they see that they’re being left behind in life and it becomes to late to catch up. If a person isn’t willing to help themselves or at least have some sort of initiative and drive towards a goal it makes them unattractive. I’m not sure if this is just me, but there’s nothing more attractive than a person with realistic goals. Yeah i’m feeling pretty strong about this, enjoy.