Just have to let it out...
So I haven't posted in a very loooong time. Writing is not really my thing but there's something that has been eating inside me that I want to just let go and hopefully be *snap*, *poof*, *nada* gone just like that.
I never want to have any ill feelings towards anything especially anyone. And I think letting that feeling remains for even one second longer will just make it feels bad worse even about yourself. I'm also never the confrontational one. No can do. Can't do anything about it now so the next best thing is to write all about it and just let it go. Hope it works. Fortunately, it has been in the past. So just bear with me with all the endless rantings. Here goes nothing...
So I have this somewhat new friend. I really like her, zero sarcasm there. Easy to talk to, very considerate and caring, there's so many times that I've been able to count on her.. but... Yeah there's always a but. There were just times that she's so irritatingly picky. I don't know how to really describe it. I mean it's okay to be picky. Maybe I just don't understand it because I'm not one, at least not the irritating kind. But it gets really tiring to hear every small details on her preference on A LOT of things. "I don't want to have curtain in the shower because it gets so claustrophobic." "I don't want to see dust and dirt because it irritates my skin." At least this she admits a physiological reaction.. but she can handle the dust in her fan just fine for long periods of time.
Just recently, when for a very very rare instance that I wasn't able to clean after my dirty clothes, she sounded so mighty and b*tchy telling me to clean it up. Did I say that we're roommates? Yeah it will really be exhausting to comply to every 'little requests' that she wants you to do.
Another thing that frustrates me about her is at work. Yes! She's my friend and we're roommates.. and working at the same company. A disaster just waiting to happen... Anyway we used to hate this another coworker because she's a certified know-it-all, backstabbing, credit-grabbing b*tch, lets call her Z.
Me as a supportive friend will also not like someone you hate so.. Z and my friend are working in the same team. My friend is the leader and you really don't want to have that kind of member in your team. That's another story but her fake face is not really the point. Another thing we don't like about Z is that she's never respectful towards my friend even though my friend is her senior. I think my friend just had enough. I don't know but the way I see it, her attitude towards the coworker is now also not polite.
I said now because she had tried before to handle Z professionally. I mean it's never good not to be respected again and again and again but.. reprimanding your hate-her-guts junior in a rude way.. also in front of other coworkers. This only makes you the same level as she.. even if it's her 1000th offense. If you really want to be respected then you must earn it.
I mean Z may be guilty on her 1000 offenses but you are also not entirely innocent. I know my friend also does, not really unethical but nonetheless behaviors that do not entirely conform to work ethics. She might has been using her working hours not really working but gossiping, and other of the same kind relatively small offenses. I mean most of us might be guilty of those. I just think that Z's offense is not really that grave. The only difference is that my friend is not doing this particular offense and Z does. Or she's maybe just looking for a reason to be angry and rude towards Z.
I also notice that my friend seems more bossy now towards her team. When their project is just new, I don't notice that this was the case. Sometimes giving tasks almost like a command rather than a request. I think even if you are the leader, there is still a difference between the two. Your subordinates will not follow you if you never know how to follow.. or at least not only just hear what your subordinate has to say but also really hear and consider the suggestion before trashing the idea. I don't know.. maybe my annoyance with my friend just piles up so I just notice more and more of her flaws. Or maybe, and I feel that this is a high possibility, she is also frustrated with me because.. I may or may not act that good towards her lately. But I'm never rude. I just don't encourage any conversations or explain things more thoroughly, just straight to the point response to her.. which we all know is very irritating.
So maybe we are just butting heads right now, up notching each other's annoyance but I never really think I would make good points in here. I must also remember to apply these myself because I never want to look down on people.
I'm so angry before I started writing this that I want to throw my phone.. just like in the movies! So cool! I really really did want to.. and that's how I know that what I'm feeling is poison, something I don't want to feel towards anyone and ever again. Well I guess writing has actually been helpful. Ha! I told you so.
It's never healthy to hold grudges or negative feelings. It will only make you feel smaller. Maybe that person also has other things that she is experiencing right now that's why she's acting badly. And maybe I am just making excuses for her and for myself to avoid conflict. Well, spoken like a true confrontation coward. That's me. Not telling you it's really the best that you can do in these kinds of situation, but thinking outward gives me other perspectives and divert my emotions to more important things in life and really focus more on myself.
Be compassionate. Show Maturity. Build yourself. Sometimes you cannot control one's action. What you can control is your reaction.