I went with my theatre-and-concert-going buddy to Napa on Sunday. We saw the child pianist prodigy Peng Peng perform at the Napa Valley Opera House. On the drive back home she was lamenting about all the divorces she's been witnessing lately. I inwardly thought, "It's an epidemic! Marriage is to blame!" I outwardly thought, "This thought is an outie!"
As she was telling me about the other divorcing people she knew in a rather authoritative-- and dare I say, judgmental--way, I noted that in every single case there was a Good Guy and a Bad Guy. My pal is in her 60's and has been married for most of her life. I was amazed (but not surprised--she is set in her ways) how easily she judged people, especially in relationships, in such black and white terms.
Is she not aware of her own ickiness along side her own goodness? Does she think people are so different than herself or her husband?
I also got the feeling she was fishing for the why of my separation. I'm a coy fish, I didn't bite.
4 comments:
OK. I won't be koi.
Sorry to hear about your friends. What an unfortunate situation.
Granted, sometimes people are schmucks. (Not that I'm saying your friend is.)
I wish I could have a heart-to-heart with my pal, but she polarizes everything. I'd hate for her to gossip about R and me the same way she was gossiping to me about others. It's wiser to let her fish and speculate.
Demmit, you can't comment on your own play on words (you coy koi). That's MY job. :(
Tiny Hands: Oops. My bad!
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(That was a spider smiling.)
Dean: Ugh. I hate gossip! It bores me, and it is destructive.
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(That was the word verification word in case you weren't following along.)
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