Just got a wee bit hurt by someone I, up until now, felt very warm and friendly toward. He's a former boss, someone who made it possible for me to go to college. I owe him a lot. And I still do, of course. But he just disappointed me by very casually declining my invitation, not realizing (or perhaps caring) that I know whether or not he's even looked at it. As it happens, he didn't even bother to look before saying that he couldn't make it.
Got to let this one go, it's not worth crying over (and I'm not). I am, however, fighting the urge to be diplomatic and forgiving because, just at the moment, it would feel like I was trying to take the high road in order to be the better person and perhaps make him feel small in the process. And that would be: wrong.
Even though I am better and he is small. (heh)
