The paradox and other human mysteries

[angelnova]

Usually I have too many rants about how people just frustrate, anger, upset, confused, etc me... And then I learned from watching my boss at work that if you close yourself off by having too high of standards for people, you'll just be let down over and over again, just falling further down that dark hole

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[happynadia]

I have high standards on people who I chose to become my friends. But I also give everyone equal opportunity to show whether or not they can live up to those standards. Those who don't live up to those standards I don't fall out with, they just become more like aquantainces (don't mistake that for close friends I have just lost touch with). I'm very forgiving to people for not being perfect. Would you even live up to your own standards 100% of the time? To tell you the truth I feel like Matt and I have been taken advantage of after reading this post. We took Dippy in willing to keep her for however long it took for you to situate things with your apt complex. She was decently behaved as long as we gave her about 5 hours of attention a day which was just not possible every day with our personal needs. So when we just couldn't give her hours upon hours of attention she would rip things up. She ripped up a total of about $30 to $50 worth of stuff (on top of hours of work Matt put into setting up the drain pipe that Dippy dug up) that we

[angelnova]

Taken advantage of? We were under the impression that you were going to take her indefinately.

We were willing to pay for dog food, but we had hoped you would tell us BEFORE she ran out. And POPCORN?!?!?! What the HELL were you thinking? She threw up in the car and it was whole kernals. WTF?? You tell me all the time about how I don't treat my animals right and you feed a dog popcorn. Nice logic

[angelnova]

BTW, the only reference to you in that post was asking was it too much for a considerate friend - the rest of it wasn't about you at all.