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Do We Ever Really Know A Person?

Story ID:2390
Written by:Veronica Elizabeth Foust (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:Diary/Journal Entry
Writers Conference:$500 2007 Family Memories Writing Project
Location:Greensboro North Carolina USA
Year:2007
Person:my family
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How do you really know what a person is like? I mean really like inside. Some people can be very convincing on the outside and all along be very cold inside. What does it take to be able to read a person? I have never been able to understand how people can treat a person,who has been good to them,so bad. I guess a lot of people don't think about the golden rule. I find myself wanting to turn dissapointment into anger and I know that is not how you handle these things. I just give so much of myself and when I ask for something in return I expect it and it never happens. But,my new theory is to stop having contact with people like this,I believe that is the way to handle them,to show them that I don't have to be treated this way. I use to be in situations where I had to put up with this kind of treatment,but not anymore. My life is a lot different than 20 years ago when my children were young and I had them to think about first. I feel that some think I still am that same woman with those same needs and that is far from the truth. I just expect to be met at least halfway or not at all,and I don't feel that is too much to ask of a person,do you? It just seems that lately,the people I stand up to,are the ones that I am letting go of,and I wonder if I am doing the right thing. I have to go with what I feel is right in my life now.