Recent Textversation (y'know, a conversation via text?!?)
R - that's me, Red.
J - that's him... we'll just keep it at "J" cuz I know who it is...
Ok, now that that's set, let's bring it ON!!!
J (3rd April 12:20 A.M. ?!?!?! A.M.?!?!?!) - "Hey, did you go to the memorial?"
J (4th April 12:02 pm - hmm, looks like copy/paste to me) - "Hey, did you go to the memorial?"
R - "I didn't go to sign language, nope."
J - "So you didn't go to memorial at all?"
R - "Before I answer that, I need to ask if you really wanna know, cuz you know ignorance really is bliss and once ignorance is gone it can't be taken back..."
J - "Yeah, I'm aware of it, go ahead."
R - "Fine. Then DAMN ignorance aside... Nope."
J - "Why not?"
R - (at this time I'm still being nice, but at the same time, I DID warn him so I didn't pull any punches...) "Well dude, two things. First being 1 Thes 4:11... And second, that's between me and Him, and if I hafta answer for that one day, so be it..."
At this point I didn't hear back from him for 2 days... *heh*
J - "Cracker Barrel on Sunday morning?"
R - "...sure, do you need me to pick you up? You staying at S's house?"
J - "Yeah. Do you know where S lives? U want it to be just us?"
R - "S can come along if he wants to, NP with that. What's his address and I'll googlemaps it?"
J - "Ok, do you remember where L&D used to live?" (obviously he missed the point about me googlemap-ing it...)
R - "yep"
J - "Ok, S lives 2 doors before their old house. The number is 20 or 21."
R - "ok, laterz."
So, all was well. Personally I didn't wanna get together with this guy. Nothing wrong with him except he was a 'ghost from my past' which I just wanted to LEAVE in the past...
But, fine. Breakfast is quick, easy, done, then I can be on my way and hopefully he on his.
Yet not all is fine in Wonderland.
J (8th April 12:34 A.M. (WTF is this guy thinkin'?!?! Now, of course anyone who knows me KNOWS I was still up at that early evening time (for me that's kinda early still heh), but I was chillin' at a friend's house playin DDR, watchin' anime (Witch Hunter Robin!!) and then this text... Ock, so the fun starts yet again...) - "Hey, can we talk?"
J - (12:45 A.M.) "Hello?"
R - (12:50 am) "Um, I'm driving home from a friend's house, I'll be back home in 20..." (uh, get the hint 'can't talk now...?' What do you think??? If you guess "nope, he didn't get it" YOU GET A COOKIE!! YAY!!!)
J - "Ok, think we can talk via texting?"
R - "...Sh'o. Sup?"
J - "I'm kinda worried abt seeing u tomorrow. Some have said ur a much changed person."
R - (yeah, I've been prepared for this... *heh*) "'Some' have said? Who? Also, I haven't seen hide or hair of 'everyone,' gotten NO emails from 'anyone' except you-know-who, and everything 'everyone' has said is hearsay. So... I'm not changed J. I'm me. Who I always have been..."
J - (1:01 AM) "'Always have been?' You left B (my soon-to-be-X). Some people r worried u will harm me."
J - (1:04 A.M.) "Cat got your tongue?"
R - (ok, that pissed me off. Um, I TOLD YOU I WAS DRIVING HOME WHILE THERE WAS SNOW ON THE ROADS WITH SOME WHIPPIN WIND AND....jackass...) "No, the cat's in the backseat while I'm driving and texting at the same time ya git..."
R - "Yes, always have been. Yes I left B. I have no intention on 'harming' you. And are you 15 again? How can I, a mere human, harm you?" (I was going on, but had to break it up because of the limits of texting, so he shot me back a quick text before I could proceed)
J - "Ok........think u can give me a ride to the KH tomorrow? McDonalds first. Ok?"
R - (here I continued from above) "And I don't want to hurt you. I'm not a sadist... besides, you have a better chance of harming yourself than I ever could..."
J - "What do you mean by me being able to harm myself more?"
R - "Dude, your habits and hobbies and... their a worse harm than I could EVER." (I just applied the MODIFIED golden rule - 'Do to others as they have done to you,' you attacked me and.....
J - "I see. As long as you don't talk to me into anything. Tomorrow?"
R - "And as to a ride to the KH, uh, no, S can take you... but, lemme ask you... Why do you want to get together with me anyway??"
J - "Cuz I want to get inside your head and still love you."
R - (Heh... oh yeah, open mouth, insert foot bub... *heh*) "See, this is what I mean about your habits. 'Everyone' has probably encouraged you NOT to visit with me, but here you are insisting, going against 'everyone's' council..."
"And the fact that you don't want me to 'talk you into anything,' but here you just said you want to get inside my head... it's a contradiction man..."
J - (oh, he was shaken as observed by this next text...) "Yeah...... why don't u stop by just for a quick hi?"
R - (......yeah, sure... by this time it was 2 AM...) "Yeah, y'know, I gotta pack cuz I'm leaving this weekend and stuff to do, so I don't think so..."
J - "What is really happening to you D? What is eating you ALIVE"
R - "Heh... Nothing's happening. Nothing's eating me. Like I told you, I'm ME. Who I always have been. I'm taking a shower now. It's late and I have a busy day. Oyasumi no Sayonara - G'nite and Goodbye."
J - (2:18) - "I'd like to hear your reasons why ur like this buddy. Love you man. Look up (blah blah blah scriptures blah blah blah). Good night."
Oh, but that's not the end. No, by no means is it the end...
The next day:
J - (15:07) "Hey.......... I'm sorry how things ended up for us last night."
R - "J, I'm sorry for how it made you feel... as for me being sorry for how it ended...... well...."
J - "But you know the bible truth extremely well."
R - (in the back of my mind I'm thinking 'one groups' interpretation of it...') "That may be, but I'm just not interested in that path anymore. I don't hold to the same tenets that you do anymore."
J - "Tenets?"
R - (I threw that word in there cuz I could... heh) "Yeah, system of beliefs, regulations, life choices..."
J - "Sorry to tell you this, jehovah never will be completely out of your heart. Once it's there, will always be there."
R - (I SO badly wanted to come back with something quick, snappy, sarcastic... this was pretty good...) "Ok, thx. Bye."
J - "Bye? Uhmmm, ok."
R - (and just to make sure he GOT IT...) "Ok, thx. Bye-bye."
So, I think I've done well in 'burning that bridge' or putting away that particular ghost from my past. And hopefully, knowing HIM he shared that with others as well... I tell ya, if you EVER wanted something to be known, tell him something and call it a secret. He could blab faster than a bunch of teenage girls. **heh**
Yeah, see, I do give him credit tho. I did change before to fit something that I thought was for me. Wasn't. See, he didn't know me before.
Fun textversation and hopefully I won't be contacted by him or his ilk again any time soon.
So, in conclusion;
I'm back. Jya!