I appreciate the gracious response, karen. <<it is easy to forget that others often are busy pursuing theirs independently for their own reasons and not to thwart ours>> is a good explanation for what happened, I think. My priority was urgent, to me.
There are times, also, when one expects certain things one has no right to expect (something X and I agree about), and unshared expectations in life as well as in cyberlife lead to trouble.
The background of Poet's experience, and mine with Poet, and with CH as a result of it, invested my experience with additional emotion to me. Duh.
I won't go back and read your posts as I said I would. I think you explained the intentions of your actions thoroughly and there wouldn't be much point in spending the time showing how came to see it as I did, for exculpation (Jewel did that, for which I'm very appreciative, Jewel), or how you actually felt, since I'm satisfied already that my interpretation was wrong and you felt and did as you say.
N pointed out to me that my feeling that CH had gotten away with a great deal over the months could hardly be an accurate one if you and I felt equally insulted. That would be the comic ending if this were a short story.
Edit: Short story? I mean novel. |
