by Great fields » Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:06 am
This is so sad, but this is life. sometimes we drift away from friends as they are 'for a reason' and 'for a season'. I was sad when my kindergarden friend got married in a private ceremony in America and didn't invite me - but invited the other girl in our trio (we all live in different countries). The reason was because ' it' was so small, and you have a baby (no one had one then) , and you're so happy with your life in London anyway'. From then it was clear that they had moved on. All the great memories were there but they were not into making new ones.
The same feeling happens when you don't get cast in your favourite am dram musical, and when the school mums form tables for the event and don't invite you! Rejection is everywhere! it is life!
Ah well! Who wants to be at the whims of organisers, wishing you were popular enough to be invited? I always respond by organising my own table with my curated list of mates, and my own holidays.
Who wants to be the third wheel in a holiday anyway? Or maybe their holiday is one for detoxing and chilling and they know that you are a party animal and don't want you to feel uncomfortable when they have their Wibble teas? Maybe you are too cool and the organiser wants to have her time in the limelight and the attention to herself? Maybe she wants to talk abut her terrible marraige but can't bear to do it in front of you, because your life is so fabulous? You'll never know. It might not be about you, it's all about them. It's probably not even malicious. It's time to find a group that fits you now, dipping into the old groups only if they bring you joy.
Which reminds me, someone in an old, bitchy group wants to reconnect and go for dinner. That does not bring me joy. Better take my own advice.
This is so sad, but this is life. sometimes we drift away from friends as they are 'for a reason' and 'for a season'. I was sad when my kindergarden friend got married in a private ceremony in America and didn't invite me - but invited the other girl in our trio (we all live in different countries). The reason was because ' it' was so small, and you have a baby (no one had one then) , and you're so happy with your life in London anyway'. From then it was clear that they had moved on. All the great memories were there but they were not into making new ones.
The same feeling happens when you don't get cast in your favourite am dram musical, and when the school mums form tables for the event and don't invite you! Rejection is everywhere! it is life!
Ah well! Who wants to be at the whims of organisers, wishing you were popular enough to be invited? I always respond by organising my own table with my curated list of mates, and my own holidays.
Who wants to be the third wheel in a holiday anyway? Or maybe their holiday is one for detoxing and chilling and they know that you are a party animal and don't want you to feel uncomfortable when they have their Wibble teas? Maybe you are too cool and the organiser wants to have her time in the limelight and the attention to herself? Maybe she wants to talk abut her terrible marraige but can't bear to do it in front of you, because your life is so fabulous? You'll never know. It might not be about you, it's all about them. It's probably not even malicious. It's time to find a group that fits you now, dipping into the old groups only if they bring you joy.
Which reminds me, someone in an old, bitchy group wants to reconnect and go for dinner. That does not bring me joy. Better take my own advice.