I’m writing this now to get this feeling off me.

How do you handle people who despite the fact that you’ve treated them well, go out of their way to be disrespectful.  Actually, I don’t think disrespectful is the right word, I think they think so little of you that they think they can give you an egg and say it’s a chick!  (In other words, they think they can fool you.)

It really gets to me how unjust life has become and that sometimes I’ve played with it too.  I’ve been tolerant of people because I know how they’ve also given much but my tolerance has somehow been abused.  I have been careful not to overstep the boundaries of people but it really gets to me when the very same people you’ve bestowed favors for don’t return the same favor to a colleague or even the same consideration to you.

To this person I’d rather not name:

Have the decency to come up front and say you can’t do it so plans can be made to work around it.  Don’t let others paint a beautiful and pristine picture of you which you can’t live up to.  Have the decency to give others the respect and consideration that’s been bestowed on you.  Don’t make it seem like you’re a victim of circumstance because you’re not.  We make our own circumstances and you’ve made yourself a victim of your own folly.