I understand you perfectly, reading your comment I remembered a very ugly story that happened to me about someone who called herself my friend. When I arrived in Spain with Catalina (the black cat) and I couldn't find a rental because nobody wanted to rent me a flat with animals .... my friend told me to abandon her, to abandon my daughter!!!
Someone once told me, if a person doesn't like animals, he is not a good person. I don't know if that's so, but life has shown me that it is.
I have already erased that person from my life, from my phone, from everything. I love my cats, nobody messes with them, they are my life and they make my life wonderful.
It's hard to find people who love cats like that, thank you.
Yes, people are sub-par at times, meaning they suck. I'm glad to hear you cast aside that person and ceased all connections, they don't deserve to be a part of your life. I work hard to remove negativity from my life, meaning people and their influences, and replacing it with the positive ones. It seems to make a lot of sense to me.
Yep.
If the person is negative I walk away. I don't argue, I don't fight. I don't like that. I just stay away from those people who do me wrong and have done me wrong on many occasions.
In the case of this so-called friend it hurt me, because I thought she was my friend and she knew about my love for cats. She didn't care. So she didn't love me.
But I got over it and I moved forward, always forward and strengthened!
People change I guess, for many reasons too...They also drift into and out of our spheres and that's ok. I guess we need to be true to ourselves, and they them, so I'm not to fussed. I'm really good at drawing a line beneath a person and moving on without any more thought invested. I've learned to do that over the years and it helps me have a happier life.
As they say in my country, clean slate... move on.
I used to have a harder time doing that when I was a teenager or younger.... no longer
I think people struggle to do it when young as they're seeking acceptance or validation maybe. When we get a little older, and grow into self-acceptance and self-confidence it's easier.
You said it well and so it is. Life makes us learn.