Loving You A Little Less
You know what happens every time you say things that hurt people who love you? They love you a little less.
I have seen you hurt the people who love you with the sharp end of what you say. It pains me. I cannot imagine how they could hold out. You snap at anyone about the shallowest of things. You ruin even the best of times. Your mood swings are impossibly unfathomable.
You are difficult. You don’t care about how people might feel. As long as you have your way. And you believe that if it’s not your way, it is not the way.
Everyone gets to be cranky and obnoxious sometimes, and we understand that. But with you, any nice conversation could turn into a nasty exchange of hateful words. Thanks no less to your endless bickering about things that displease you in the littlest way.
There are always better ways to say things. We may all fall for the oh so tempting urge to snap and yell at a person sometimes, but even the nicest and most understanding people can only take so much bickering.
And you know what I hate so much about your constant bickering? Is that it is often completely unnecessary and uncalled for.
It can’t be a way of life, can it? This quick temper, this disposition, this failure to realize that it’s not okay to say spiteful things to people even on the nicest of days? Are you going to live the rest of your life breaking people’s hearts with your tongue-lashing? Imagine all the feelings you are going to hurt, imagine all the great times you are going to ruin.
Sometimes, you get on my nerves so much that I want to scream at you to friggin’ shut up. But, no, I can’t bring myself to do that, because that would mean doing the very thing I hate you doing.
Please stop hurting the people who love you. Love transcends patience, bravery, and the physical, I know, but you’re draining them of their love for you. Don’t turn their oceans of love into deserts. For your own sake, please don’t.
