Have you ever felt like you’ve hurt someone, or made them angry, but you’re not sure what, or how, or even if?  I’m going through something like this right now with a friend.  At least I hope we’re still friends.

I don’t know how, or why, or if, because this person won’t communicate with me.  I’ve emailed, called, IM’d and text messaged, all to no avail.  Well, you say, maybe they’re busy.  Please don’t get me wrong…I understand busy.  I do.  But I don’t understand complete and total radio silence…it takes perhaps sixty seconds to type a quick email and click SEND.  I don’t understand how I can be expected to read someone else’s mind, either, especially when my crystal ball won’t be out of the shop until next week. AND, I flatly, irrevocably refuse to barter in the currency of hints with another adult, having left junior high school more than twenty years ago.

So, I ask, where does that leave me?  Do I value this person enough to expend some more energy trying to get to the bottom of this, or is it time to just say, “Hey, fuck you” and dropkick them out of my life?  Would they even notice, either way?  That’s the question that hurts…