If we are friends, I kind of care what you think about the company I keep…but not really.
I don’t care if you think I should be friends with this person; if I don’t want to be, I’m not gonna. I don’t make fake nice with people to better my social status or please others. I mean, I’m not going out of my way to mean or disrespectful, but I’m not kissing someone’s ass just because you think they are super-duper if I don’t share your opinion.
I don’t care if you think I should turn my back on someone you dislike. If I’ve chosen to forgive and move forward, let it go. I forgive pretty easily. I get that humans screw up…sometimes they screw up more often than they get it right, and if I make the choice to forgive their human-ness, drop it. Or if you just plain don’t like my friend for no real reason other than you just don’t like them, so what? I don’t want to hear how much you dislike so and so. I’m not going to make you be on a bowling team with people you dislike, pinky promise. I can’t make all my friends be friends; that’s so first grade.
Just play nicely. Don’t wanna play with this person? Stay outta the sandbox then and do something else.