Quiet Quitting

It's basically already March, but I still catch myself thinking of the most important thing that happened to me in 2024. It was the year that the weak relationships got permanently broken, and the strong ones, even stronger. 

I was reading an article this morning that talked about 'Quiet Quitting'. It's when you feel so insignificant that you either withdrawn or act out in desperation.

My default is definitely withdrawn. I remember these relationships that got broken. How one of them, sat on my couch and told me 'I was so desperate to talk to a friend last weekend about all this that is going on in my life'. Right, I was not considered a friend. He was referring about other people. Or when I showed him the small renos I was doing in my house and he said 'I have a friend who I always tell her that when I get to reno my house, she's the one who will help me out', while showing me her Instagram profile. Yep, it was not my Instagram profile. I got so tired of feeling insignificant. I withdrew. Next thing I know, this friend and his husband blocked me on Instagram and left all Whatsapp groups we were in. They said we didn't care about the things they were going thru in their life. I did care. But what difference would it make for them as they showed me again and again that I was so insignificant? But they didn't have the balls to just tell me that. That I was nothing to them. They had to make me feel guilty. Wow. Cowards! Bullies!

Yes, it still hurts. While I'm much better off, rejection is a wound that insists in never healing.