God, ever have people in your life who just drain you? It's as if they can just suck the fun, joy, happiness, or in general, the craic out of the room as they enter.
There are some people who have been in my life who just seemed to be perpetually miserable, they'd never have a nice word to say about anything. Nothing good going on in their lives whatsoever.
"How's it going?"
"Shit, blah blah blah, then this happened, blah blah blah,"
It's like, wow bro chill, I meant how's it going as a greeting, I don't want to hear your life story. Take your tale of woe and shove it where the sun don't shine, bitch. While you're at it, grow the fuck up, give your head a wobble and stop moping around and do something with yourself. Maybe if you done more than sit around all day wanking you'd be a little bit more motivation. Maybe then you wouldn't be rotting the ears off me with your nonsense.
I'm not your daddy, and I'm certainly not your mummy, so I really could give a rats ass about your day to day.
Correction, I'd care and have a shoulder to cry on and an ear to lend if it's something serious. But, if you just carry on doing the same thing for years and wondering why your life isn't improving then I'm out.
I'm not heartless or cruel, I just think that some people deserve a bit of a verbal kick up the arse. Hell, some people deserve a physical kick too.
Existence Is Pain, Get Over It
Here's something I've learned from people I've known.
Someone who has nothing going on in their life creates drama to make themselves feel like they have something going on.
Ever know someone who constantly has problems? Bills, house, pets, arguments.
Head-wrecking.
If you're close to one of these sad individuals you too will find yourself in the firing line. It may be a flippant comment, or a misunderstanding, but whatever it is, it'll trigger an argument and no matter how much you justify it, you'll be the problem, not them... never them.
Sometimes these types of people just feel like having an argument so they'll take an innocent interaction and flip the script.
I've cut out a lot of these emotional vampires out of my life over the years and I have identified a new one. Its time to cull the herd a bit more.
There's a saying I heard. "Arguing with a fool is like rolling in the mud with a pig, only the pig enjoys it."
Never a truer word spoken. Fuck it man, I'm too long in the tooth to have this bollox in my life and I'm not playing text tennis with a gobshite.
Anyways, sorry about the rant it's just one of those days with one of those interactions with a "mate," the moral of the story, don't argue with idiots and cull anyone who wrecks your head and disrupts your peace.
