The Truth About the People in Your Life (That You Haven’t Considered)

When You’re Surrounded by the Wrong People

I just hung up on a relative.

I won’t listen to you if you don’t listen to me.

I’ve played that game before.

I know how it ends. I’m not playing it again.

People assume I have different policies depending on the person or situation. I don’t. My hang-up policy is universal.

It just so happens that my relatives are extreme, so sometimes, I have to be extreme in kind.

Why?

Because trying to explain things to people who cannot hear you is a waste of life.

It’s a losing strategy. And I refuse to participate in insanity.

It is insane to listen to someone in good faith when they refuse to do the same for you. Yet, I see it happening all the time.

People tolerate insanity just because it wears a familiar face.

Nobody knows what “normal” is.

There’s no universal score, no standard measure of sanity. But some people believe crazy shit.

Some people look normal, act normal, blend into society… yet are as deranged as they come.

And they roam freely.

They drive next to you on the highway.

They vote.

They raise kids