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Yes, I know I have dragged up an old post. I had a job and a half to find it, too. I looked for it because someone (Meg??) mentioned she would like to reconnect with a former friend. I did send this message as you see 17 months ago and not only did R never respond, he closed down his LinkedIn profile and set up another one (which has deleted a lot of his employment history, curiously enough). I was curious about him - it is his 30th birthday this weekend - so I did have a look on line, not with the intention to stalk or contact him, he won't hear anything from me.Β
The action of closing down his page and setting up a new one struck me as curious. I am sure he didn't do that in order to ensure I kept out of his orbit, I am not that self-centred. What do you think, people?
Last edited by PrettyFlamingo (11/08/2018 12:16 pm)
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I've read through all of this, and I am a bit confused. You appeared to be replying to other people's comments, but there was only one and that didn't say anything relevant to what you seemed to be replying to.
One thing that really stands out to me, and I think it's very common, human nature, is to ascribe a meaning to somebody else's actions or lack thereof or to something they've said or not said. Since we create our own realities, once you start assuming things, untrue or not, you've planted the seeds of those things becoming a fact if every time you think about the situation you are ascribing that same meaning to it, the law of assumption in action.
I agree in a physical world sense of wanting to have an answer from somebody as to why they have appeared to have cut you off, as you've defined it for yourself. You seem to have taken these things as rejections. That might not have been their original intention at all, but then from what you've said, it sounds as though you've done what could have been perceived as being pushy and even confrontational by the things you've written to these people wanting answers, innocuous as your actual words might have seemed.
There seems to be a pattern here, including your recent post about that 'pain in the backside.'
Since it is pointless to try to manipulate outward conditions directly, and that comes from within, I think perhaps a better option would have been to not take these behaviours by other people as rejections or snubs and change your perceptions of them with regard to yourself, and if you really cared so much about their friendship or keeping in touch, create those things in your imagination and not do anything overtly. Now that you seem to feel that you've been rejected, you come across as almost hostile or defensive. 'Well, if they don't want anything to do with me, they certainly won't be hearing from me again,' but all of this started with a thought in your mind.
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Cynthia, I started to reply to you but the damn thing crashed! The post was 17 months ago so it's been a while, but having grown up with brothers and parents who treated me as an unimportant joke, I find I don't suffer fools gladly, and I think my approach comes across as a bit harsh at times, but that is because I don't treat them in that way. For example, a friend asked me to go to her work Christmas party with her, then when she met a guy in November, asked me for the ticket back so she could take him instead. I took that as insulting, and even if it was for Chris Hemsworth or Aidan Turner, I wouldn't ask for a friend's ticket back!Β My approach to this was that if you can't get (and I hate the word) closure, then I would sort that out for myself.Β
If I found that I would like to be friends with them in future, then I would use Neville's techniques as you suggest in your final paragraph.Β
PS Cynthia: Having reread the whole thread, I see your confusion. The person whose posts I was replying to originally appear to have deleted their account and posts, so it looks like I've been talking to myself!!!
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Noseying around has informed me that he has bought a house with his girlfriend!
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