WORLD OF RAWR

Empathy or We're All Busy Sometimes

Earlier today, I was talking to this guy about something I wrote a couple of days ago. He commented on this part:

There's also something to be said about a recent exchange I had with someone who was very upset about how communication went. It's a common story: they wanted to set up a match, I wasn't sure if I could, etc...

However, this got taken to pretty high irritation levels which includes a note that I was being unfavorited, that I wasn't a nice person, that other people must have met me by magic, etc. 

Of course, reading that, my buddy here sided with me, but there are really no sides to be taken here. It's just unfortunate. I want to present both sides as fairly as I can. First, mine. I'll use bullets for easy reading.

  1. It's Friday in Italy. Yay weekend! I've been here for a week due to work and so there's a lot of things I'm doing with coworkers.
  2. A wrestler here contacts me a day before and asks if I want to meet up, but I have plans that evening and tentative plans for the next day, so...
  3. I explain that I am not sure if we can meet up or not.
  4. I head out for food, come back, and check a few messages before bed. Some are from this wrestler asking for whatsapp info and the like.
  5. I message back with some of the info and head to bed as I'm exhausted.
  6. Now it's Saturday. It's our last day in Italy. I go shopping with the guys from work.
  7. I leave for the day.
  8. Phone dies. Now I'm concerned about this wrestler, but I didn't commit to anything, so I don't panic too much.
  9. I get back around 7PM. Now I have the evening free. Let's check messages!
  10. Lots of messages wondering where I am, why I'm not responding to messages here (see above paragraph).

Now here, it would be easy to say that given my circumstances, maybe this person is being a bit much, but then again, my thoughts (again with bullets):

  1. Someone contacts me.
  2. I respond, but intermittently.
  3. They don't know if I'm here for a day or a week. They just want to wrestle.
  4. They aren't getting enough feedback to make plans.
  5. They start an exchange, but then it fades into nothing with no discernible reason why for several hours.
  6. This person suddenly reappears like "oh hey, let's wrestle now".

Bonus:

  1. Person is getting ready to leave town soon.
  2. Person can't even state if/when they are coming back clearly and they are already difficult to communicate with, let alone plan anything with.

I imagine that any person like the above might seem like a bit of a jerk comparatively speaking, so I empathize. There are no bad guys here. Just rough timing.

Ah well.

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Last edited on 4/15/2016 2:35 AM by synxiec
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London1980 (14)

4/20/2016 7:16 PM

Look - when travelling scheduling is always harder, which makes it harder to accommodate. I've had many cases like that, both as a traveller and when people visit my country, when tentative - and sometimes scheduled meets - just didn't happen. In all cases both of us understood that this is how the world works. I think that you really don't need to put too much thought about it. Yes - it was an unfortunate turn of events, but these things just happen.

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synxiec (75)

4/20/2016 8:58 PM

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Definitely. This was more just exposing my thoughts on this. It took all of mere moments to process this.

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