we started working together 27 years ago, had our kids at the same time and been at all the kids birthdays etc. Know each other’s families well etc. i can find redeeming qualities in people who have traits that annoy the shit out of me, my kids marvel at it, but i can. Cheryl would do anything for me, and vice versa. obamaloving dem that she is.
Right now, today, I wonder if I want to go back to my church, or start looking elsewhere. I get little sustenance from my church. Rochester is wearing me down. Watering down my faith.
Everyone has redeeming qualities and many people change over time. I am less tolerant of nonsense. Just because they have some good qualities(and who doesn’t?), doesn’t mean I want to be around them because, most of the time, they are outweighed by the other and as I’ve said before, we have less and less in common. Different strokes for different folks, cue Sly Stone.