Old Feelings

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Years ago now......back in 2009, I went to stay with a friend over to a little farming community where she had come to live with her daughter. She and I had been friends since back in the mid 70's. Yeah, nearly 40 years. I had a good time the three months I was there up to a point. I went to the gym every day, got my latte on the way and had time for me. I would run errands for her cause she was working. And, my friend and I had fun watching old movies and chatting about 'the good ole days' when we were young and demented. We had a lot of fun times together. Well, she had an old washing machine and dryer that were barely hanging on. I had some dirty clothes but I didn't want to be the one that might be using her machine when the thing broke down. I would feel awful. So, I opted to take a box of dirty clothes over to the kid's apartment and do a load while I was there for a visit. I went out of her house a little early to put the box in the trunk. I come back later that day and she was acting weird and finally tells me she thinks I stole from her. She saw me take the stuff out to the car earlier that morning. Geesh! Well, I moved out and came back here with my kids. She and I went round and round about this. She thought I was so silly and even acting a bit irrationally because I refused to go back to being friends with her when she still thought I had stolen from her. Why would I want to continue being friends when she thought I was a thief? And why would she want to be friends with someone she thought stole from her? Talk about irrational. So, fast forward to last week. I was looking at my friend's list on FB one evening as I do occasionally. Check in with some I have not heard from in awhile. That sort of thing. And I come across her profile. She had been sending me little notes now and then for over a year. I had never gotten them. So I read them and thought I would restate my position and see what she did. I am always open to a changing heart. I told her how hurt I was to have someone I thought was a good friend think such things of me. You know what she did? Blocked me. Tells me a lot about who this person is. I was right to cut ties. Picture from Pixabay