I’m fairly certain I’ve blogged about this before – so I really, really must be an idiot.
I say this, because even though people have disappointed me before, I seem not to have learned my lesson and left them alone.
In this case, though, someone started messaging me and asking me all these personal questions. We found that we share many interests. And then, he asked what I expected of my close friends. Weird, no?
Well, I chalked it up to it being 5am and answered in all honesty. I’m guessing it was brutal (but only caught up to the guy later) because we continued to talk, and the next morning, he goes “nope, don’t wanna meet you, you’re placing too much expectation on me”
Whuh?! At no point in the conversation did I say anyhting along the lines of “I expect YOU to do this and that.”
And so he got his panties in a twist over how much I expect from people, and decided to give me “some friendly advice” (at which point, I was pretty much set on writing him off – I’d not even met the guy and he was already dishing out advice?! Come on…)
It got me thinking, though – surely it’s not unreasonable to expect from people what you’re willing to give them?!
