horrible people

I know this pegs me as starkly naive and I pride myself in being not a chump, but sometimes, I’m really shocked by how shitty people can be to each other.

I mean, I know that people are shitty. I know that the world is full of awful people. People that can justify anything and are horrible to their own families – not to mention strangers and friends. How else to explain the sitting President? (I confess, I am still in disbelief about him.)

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However, I would like to think that even though I personally dislike someone for whatever reason, that it doesn’t mean they’re an actual bad person. I would like to think that I’m just petty, or that some personalities just don’t rub well together.

That’s ok, right? It’s ok not to like people. It’s ok to accept that there are different people in the world and that not everybody is for you; that the world is big enough to accommodate all kinds of people in the world.

I’m realizing that I can be both petty and right. (It’s a gift.)

I wrote about unfriending people a few years ago, how I re-categorize Facebook friends on their birthdays because that’s when Facebook reminds me that the person exists. Once a year, I review whether I want to stay friends with someone and if I do, whether or not I shunt them to the acquaintances section.

So, it really does come as a surprise to me that there are people out there – people I know – who are evil. Like, lowercase “e” evil.

They lie, they cheat, they deceive. They repeatedly screw over the people they know, all the while showing a face and perpetuating an image of their perfection or awesomeness.

And while I feel some vindication that my gut was right about these people, I also feel hugely disappointed. (Well, I also feel incredible anger on behalf of the people they’re backstabbing, but on the whole, I recognize that I’m generally an angry person so it’s not as shocking to feel the anger.)

What I’m surprised at is that I was actually hoping to be wrong about them. That I was just petty (as usual) and that it was a personality conflict.

As much as I love to be right, who wants to confirm that someone else is a horrible person at the expense of people I like?

Additionally, I’m disappointed in the people who do like these people. Like, what is wrong with them that they can’t see through the lies and BS? I feel as if I should warn everybody – but in the end, I come out looking petty and vindictive.

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Few things thwart me from being petty like looking as if I’m petty.

What can I say? I’m unbearably shallow.

In the end, I can only follow my own advice: block the horrible people, focus on my own life, and make my life great.