Do you ever sit back and think about everyone that you know as a friend or aquaintence? Do ever focus on their faults? Are there some people whose faults push you to the edge of what you can tolerate as a member of society? There are some that have gotten too busy to contribute to developing any kind of substancial friendship – don’t call them, they’ll call you if they get time. Then there are others that would claim to be your friend but keep enough of a distance to not let the friendship go past just being cordial to each other – or just enough to borrow something if they need it. (With this group you wonder how long it would take them to notice if you hopped a bus to Albuquerque.)

Moving on to worse things. There are some people that are just plain flakey. They say they will do something and always end up backing out because of some lame excuse that is obviously made up. What about the ones that just drain you emotionally? Everything is an emotional crisis and it’s up to you to fix it for them – or at least hear every chalk board scraping detail about the situation. (This group tends to drain your soul if you spend too much time with them.)

I can think of something for just about everyone I know but what about me? Is it possible that I am the only person in the world that isn’t screwed up in some way? When someone thinks about me, what annoying complex do I have that they immediately think of? I acknowledge that I have a problem with “follow through”. I don’t know if it’s ADD (never been diagnosed) or what, but excluding long-term committments, it’s easy for me to start things but once I lose interest I’m off to something else. I guess this is a call for introspection. Think about everything people do to annoy you and remember the saying, “We hate in others what we hate most in ourselves.”

Oh, and I tend to mumble. Sorry.