Current mood:	bitchy
Current music:	Staind - Break the Cycle: Outside

Oh, the Drama...
This is getting tiresome. I don't go looking for drama, but it always finds me.

Here's the situation I'm stuck in. I'm just going to lay down all my cards. I'll change the names but I think the parties will probably know who they are.

So person A, who I consider a good friend, has some kind of bad encounter with person B, who I also consider a good friend. Neither of them will tell me what happened, so I'm completely in the dark about the situtation. It has developed into a situation where person A has developed a mentality of "a friend of my enemy is my enemy," and put it into practice. Introduce person C, whose relationships with the others involved is something I'm not sure of, but I don't believe it's a very sincere, devoted friendship in any case just because of the type of person C is. However person A and person C end up near each other and drama ensues. Person A seemingly considers person C an enemy for the reason specified above. (Side note: I don't particularly care for person C myself, only because I do not consider him a sincere friend and person C has expressed no interest in being a real friend to me at all - which is the reason a lot of certain people have lost my favor recently, not so much drama as a lack of sincere interest in being my friend.)

So person C demands clarification, and person A talks to person C in private about it. When they are finished neither of them speak of it again. I feel left in the dark, because person A will explain what's going on to person C, an enemy, but won't tell me, a friend. I don't deserve to be told the truth, apparently. Person B won't even tell me the details, not even to defend himself. It's very puzzling.

From the information I have been given, I am left to draw my own conclusions without knowing the real meat of the story. The way it appears to me is that person A is overreacting to something, and person B is loath to continue to remind person A that person A is overreacting. Person A continues to overreact, out of control, until the situation reaches the boiling point. That's my guess from what I've been allowed to observe.

I'm not pissed off at anyone, I don't hate anyone, I just feel like venting some frustration here. I really want people to just get along and be civil (they don't have to be friends, that's different). I think that a lot more transparency and communication will solve a lot of problems. Keeping things secret is what really makes people nasty and spiteful. The things people don't know are what lead them to assume and draw conclusions as I'm finding myself doing now. It might be better that I not know, but I can't make that call because I don't know what I don't know. That's so rarely the case, though, that I doubt it. It just makes me feel on the outside of the situation, which makes it really weird when persons A and B vent at me about it expecting a sympathetic ear. Frankly, I'm through being sympathetic about a situation that I am forbidden to hear. When it's declassified, I'll consider giving half a shit about your problems. Until then, the doctor is out.