The Best Of Intentions

I sometimes wonder about human nature and the mutated forms it takes. I know we're all individuals and I know we all react differently to things, but sometimes irrationality speaks so very, very loudly and reveals so much about who we REALLY are.

Case in point: Two people who have worked closely together and have become quite good friends are suddenly at odds because one of them brings to the attention of the other one that they have been acting strangely for a few weeks and that the strange behavior has them concerned that there might possibly be something causing a change in attitude and also might be causing them to not understand the simplest of things.

The one who brings this to the attention of the other does it out of genuine concern.

In less than one hour, a relationship is damaged beyond repair because the one who was notified takes strange offense at being told they might be having problems which could be anything from a blood clot or a tumor in the brain to possibly an early onset of dementia.

So the person with the good intentions is now treated like they have the Bubonic Plague and they have turned an additonal friend against the informer simply because the informer was worried about the well being of the other.

No, I'm not making this up. This entire stupid scenario is actually going on right now.

Go figure.

Personally, if someone thought that much of me that they would take the time and concern to talk to me about it I would be forever grateful to them and I would admire them for their courage to have taken the step of a true friend and to have let me know.

Apparently this isn't always the case in the course of human nature.

I do have a feeling, however, that the informer will probably NEVER make mention of any thing else they notice might be wrong in the other one's life.

Who the hell could blame them?

Obviously the friendship must not have been that good of a friendship to begin with, at least on one side that is.

I wonder how the sorehead could feel that way when the good intentioned friend helped them get their job?

Again, go figure!!

Some people never catch up in the human race, huh?