Hypocrisy
The levels of hypocrisy that some people will exercise just really, really frustrate me sometimes. Apparently, somebody I love very much has cut me off completely because of a piece of literature I wrote, one which was so thoroughly misunderstood by him and another that I am certain they didn't actually read it at all. I do admit that when writing about other people, it's a good idea to run the article past those people before publishing. I neglected to do that, and that was wrong. Considering how very much they themselves have revealed, I didn't think it was an issue. I was wrong.
How badly I wish I could show all correspondence and publicly posted material pertaining to the whole situation and have an objective third party look at it and tell all parties how very stupid it is. But I can't, because I have to respect their privacy. I'm doing that, at great pain. I'm not corresponding with either of the parties in question, because that is their wish. And I have not reprinted the article here, against huge temptation, because for some reason they were hurt by it and I refuse to keep on hurting people if I can avoid it.
But it is extremely hypocritical to slap people in the face with personal and intimate things and then get offended when they react. And then again slap them in the face with those same intimate things.
And it is very stressful and pressure building not to be able to express this anywhere. So I put it here in vague terms and if they get pissed off, well dammit all to hell, there isn't anything I can do to make them anything but unhappy anyway, except maybe drop off the face of the earth, which I'm just not ready to do.
All I can do is hope they calm down, and that they saved the piece and will read it and realize that I didn't write whatever they read into it. That's a slender hope. In fact I bet hard cash they didn't save it. If they want a copy, they'll have to go to one of the publishers for one, because I know they won't ask me for one.
They won't want a copy. They aren't interested in either fairness or forgiveness.
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