Attractive Friends

144 words

Again I’m remembering the time that man accused me of only having Attractive Friends.

Why was it, he asked, sounding quite upset, that all my friends were so attractive?

The man was not conventionally attractive, you might say, but I did not mention this, nor the fact that all his ex-girlfriends and ex-wives were extremely beautiful, nor the fact that his friends, indeed, were all rather attractive men.

I also did not mention how I’d been at least three times involved with someone that many others did not find attractive. He’d made it clear I was never to discuss anything about my exes in his presence.

Why did my attractive friends upset him so?

But then I realize I’m doing it again, laboring to understand that man’s motivations when it is clear he never spent nor would spend five minutes trying to understand mine.

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The above essay is 144 words, a part of a series explained over here.