mama_kestrel

It's been an interesting few weeks. As near as I can reconstruct, several people talking about a rather fraught topic devolved into a game of telephone. No one person was talking to everyone involved, so things got lost in transmission. "Yes, if a condition is met" was transmitted as simply "yes". And so on and so forth. (I'm being intentionally vague to maintain the privacy of several other people, so please don't ask.) One person ducked out, for which I don't blame them. Because I'm me, I'm still trying to translate bureaucratese and legalese for someone who's never had to deal with them.

But I'm pretty sure I've lost a friend who has been important to me, and that saddens me. When they told me they were bowing out, I assumed it meant only on the fraught topic. But any communication, on any topic, no matter how innocuous, has been met with silence. I don't see what I would have done differently with the information I had at the time. I suppose that's for the best, since it keeps me from running over "what ifs" at two in the morning. But I wish it hadn't happened this way.