Firstly, why am I getting so many followers on Quotev? Like, one a day or something. I'm honestly flattered.
Anyway, I resolved a conflict today. Basically one of my friends (let's call her Jane, shall we?) used to have a guy best friend (let's call him Harry). They were really close. Jane has a very fragile mental state and has to take meds, go to counselling, a psychiatrist, a physiologist and the Head of Safeguarding at our school has regular talks with her.
Anyway, Harry thought that Jane liked him as more than a friend as she kept on saying 'I love you' to him. He has no concept of social norms, where it's normal for friends to say 'I love you' to one another, but anyway. Because I think he's a pretty okay guy, I was shocked when I found out that he told Jane about his feelings. She obviously politely told him she saw him as a friend.
He blew up completely.
He called her a bitch, was extremely rude to her, accused her of leading him on, etc. The list goes on and on. This caused her to have a relapse when she was doing better, and because she has a fragile mental health, she got really angry and told everyone about it. Now over three-quarters of my year are involved, and it doesn't look nice at all for Harry.
But no one bothered to get his side of the story. Even if Jane's my friend, my natural INFP traits make me a mediator, and the incident on my music class group chat today was the last straw.
Harry and Jane both take music. Harry was removed from the class group chat yesterday, and today one of his friends (who knows nothing about the incident) confronted the admin (who is one of Jane's friends) about it. The admin refused to talk in detail about the incident, instead just choosing to say that Harry had done some things that were unacceptable and that he couldn't add a guy like him onto what's supposed to be a chill group chat. The friend blew up at the admin, and a whole fight ensued.
I had had enough.
So I messaged Harry about the incident and, while being understanding, made him realise that what he did was mean and rude, and that he needed to apologise to Jane. I messaged Jane about how he wanted to apologise to her, and though she was hesitant, I assured her that he had seen the error of his ways. She accepted, and now loves me a lot because I managed to somehow make Harry apologise.
Which is pretty crazy.
So yeah. Maybe I'm a good person, or maybe no one really thought about doing this when I was in a conflict with my own friends, but I don't really care. I just want to help people out and make their lives a bit less horrible. And I can't stand people excluding someone because of something so stupid as this. It needed to be resolved.
Of course, this took up a lot of my tact and brainpower, but I still managed to power through my piano lesson, so I'm proud.
Yesterday I also bought crochet supplies, and while I'm still pretty ass at it, I can just about do a chain that looks okay, a slip knot that holds and I understand the principle of a single crochet stitch (though mine still looks really bad). All in all, I'm pretty proud of myself.
Next year is going to be a good year.
Now that I've cut off my toxic friends from my life, I'm proud of myself. I won't ever go grovelling back to them. Ever. Not even when I need help. I haven't checked the girl's TikTok account in nearly two weeks. I couldn't give a bigger damn about what she thinks about me anymore. I'm done caring.
And now I'm helping others. Look at that character arch.
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Signing out,
Alex <3
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