Oh how could anyone not love the terrible things that you do?

I hate the inevitable tug and forth of human relationships known as the mating game.  Oh sure, it can be fun, but it can also be cruel - and like they say, all’s fair in love and war.  With a slogan like that, who cares about accountability or justification for your actions?  You owe nothing in this silly little world of ours anything, but yourself.  You owe yourself happiness, and it is perfectly acceptable, and considered suitable to mentally and emotionally break who ever may stand in the way.  Well, I am bowing out.  I am growing tired of this.  There is a resistance building up within myself against this hot potato game (never been burned, because i could feel the heat a mile away). If you want to play, you’re going to have to play by my rules.

It’s hard to reconcile two things in my mind - accepting people for who they are, and giving them this sense of accountability in the process.  A certain ex-best friend of mine, who i no longer keep in touch with, tried to justify her actions recently by styling herself as “a rolling stone”, someone who keeps changing, someone who keeps rolling along - and that is who she was. We could either accept her for who she is, or choose not accept her, and thus somehow forfeit the relationship.  It’s more complex than what it may seem on the outside.  Isn’t part of being someone’s friend  accepting the bad, just as you do the good?   Yet, should you never fault them?  Should you never bring them back to earth and hold them to some moral compass?

I think it, is inevitably a balance.  You should accept them, and stay by their side as long as pros outweigh the cons, as long as it isn’t hurting you more than you can handle.  However!  Yes, however, this does not mean they shouldn’t be liable for their misdeeds.  Accepting someone shouldn’t be a all-or-nothing type of agreement. To somehow say that you cannot hold someone accountable for their actions while accepting all of them is just plain wrong.  I accept and love the government, but i’ll be damned if i sit idly by while they pass into law a ban on gay marriage.