by Saena » Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:46 pm
I've become increasingly curt and uptight and impatient and excessively mothering to a close friend of mine recently, and I don't like it. Every time I say something to her, it comes out wrong, and I feel guilty after each interaction. I see her a bit disapprovingly a lot, even though she doesn't deserve it. She's come a long way from where she was at the beginning of this year, but I've created some kind of roadblock to giving her what she needs in this friendship.
This isn't the first time this has happened between me and another person. But unlike the other times, this person is integral to our circle of friends. I feel like if I can't fix whatever I'm approaching wrong in our friendship, it's going to make things tense between me and other people I'm close to, people I really care about a lot.
I don't want to fail as a friend to her. But I don't know how to change this behavior.
Saena
Ellie: God, why are you such a pessimist?
Jack: I dont know, maybe because bad things keep happening to me?!
-"The Tribe"