Catia Bitching Cancer

Useless people
July 17, 2000
Useless people!–who needs ’em?
You know the types.
They ignore your existence,
wait for you to contact them,
fail to respond in a timely fashion when you do,
act to others as though they care,
while snubbing you when no one’s around.
Or they send one card or one email
or call once
and then disappear.
Token people,
they have taken themselves to the periphery
of your life.
Perhaps you should send them a note:
“Since you have ignored my existence
during this critical period of my life,
you have taken yourself to the periphery of my existence.
I see no reason to retrieve you from that territory.”
But that makes YOU seem petty,
when in fact it is they that are unspeakably small
and unsatisfactory.
If they were students in a course,
you’d give them an “F.”
They’ve failed to show up,
failed to do all homework,
failed to learn anything,
refused even to ask how they could do better.
Fortunately, there are people in my life
who’ve made the grade,
who’ve cared enough to be there through thick and thin.
I’m grateful for them
and for people who’ve risen to the occasion when
I had no reason to expect they would.
But the toads and slackers who’ve been endlessly
lazy
uncaring
uninvolved
have managed to let me down
when I’m fighting a battle for my life.
Shame on them,
and shame on me if I don’t figure out
how to process this in a way
that leaves me calm and serene.
These people aren’t worth my rage.
They have qualified as barely human
in their detachment
and do not deserve any further involvement on my part.
Copyright 2000 Marcy Manning

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