My best friend Brett and I get in fights all the time. We've been best friends for almost 5 years now and still we don't see eye to eye on all subjects. Many a time we have gotten in fights over not hanging out enough, not talking, wanting to do something other than our usual movie time, and many other things. I think the most fought about subject though is his inability to tell me important things or leave out important information. To this day we still fight about it but I feel as though we both have good reasons behind our argument.
A specific time when we fought about him leaving out information was after he went through the LDS temple to take out his endowments before he left on his mission. In the LDS culture this very sacred practice is very exciting and important. In layman's terms this basically means that he preformed sacred practices that only worth members of our church at a certain point of their life (before marriage, a mission, or when they feel they are ready) participate in. In order to go into the temple you have to have a badge with your name on it that is scanned. Once inside the temple you basically preform ordinances for yourself that kind of ensure your salvation and seal you to your family and your father in heaven forever. This is kind of a big deal and a really exciting thing that is looked upon highly in my religion. So when he didn't tell me that he was going through and a week later I found out that he had been though and still hadn't told me I was a little bit mad.
As a girl I am a little dramatic and a little more emotional than Brett is. So fighting over him not telling me something that was kind of a big deal was not a new thing. I remember not talking for a while and making him "grovel" for my forgiveness. I look back on this experience and I was pretty mean and all of my meanness was not called for especially because I should have celebrated and been happy for him over this great accomplishment that he had just had but not telling your best friend something this important was uncalled for. I think that a better way to resolve our situation probably would have been better to talk about why he hadn't told me and also just to talk about the situation in general. Being as important and as sacred as this ordinance had been he was not ready to talk about it and he just needed time to process it and the right setting to tell me his good news. Instead of being supportive and understanding I over analyzed the situation and made it a big deal which was not necessary.
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