Do you know what it’s like to be in an alliance and someone (A) within the alliance did something towards another alliance member (B) which you are greatly appalled by when B told you about it and you gave you two cents worth but eventually but B doesn’t want to aggressively do anything about the matter and gave in to tolerate A’s actions and it’s not your place to tell A off since he/ she did not specifically display such behavior towards you (probably because A knows better not to!), it’s something between A and B, plus you don’t want to upset the dynamics of the alliance for whatever reasons.       

    Don’t you hate one of those situations where you were introduced to a couple of people (C and D) like, 1.5 year back by a good friend (E) of like, I don’t know, ten years and you later learn that C had a fall out with D and eventually E had a fall out with C and circumstances have it that you get to see D around now and the both of us are handling that with such awkwardness because we know that any attempt to finally acknowledge each other will lead to having to conduct small talk about C and E and we know well I know that I will be defensively stand up for E in whichever way that conversation might go.

OR

    One of those situations where you’ve been tight with two people (F and G) for a substantial amount of time that people recognize you as a unit and then you finally realize that F and G are not contributing (much) to the life and lifestyle you desire and start to (subconsciously or otherwise) drift away them and like later on, you are put in a circumstance where you got to be cool with H who knew F and G (and have heard of the unit you were once a part of) and had to explain for yourself to H why you lost touch with them but you know you have to mince your words ‘coz the circle is small enough for your words to sneak up on you and bite you in the ass.

    Or when you have to nonchalantly pretend that nothing changed when someone (J) you’ve literally known all your life decided to leave the social context that brought you together but recently eventually came around to join it again, especially since J is your cousin.     

OR

    When in a… social setting K came up to you with an intention of interest but your interest is diverted to his friend L and you don’t want to make an effort to stay in touch with L ‘coz you don’t want to have to offend K or anything like that and at the same time it just kills you to just sit there and not give in to the temptation to subtly ask K about L and after you do, it disappoints you to learn that given the external circumstances, this is the best it can get.


    Have you been in a situation where you finally realize how political you are when it comes to (any kinda) relationships?