people who like people

ok, so this morning at the band festival's community worship service, i chanced to share cursory greetings with a number of folks i know from church, past lives, and my own neighborhood.....and i am reminded that there are those people who really like everybody they meet, let alone people they already know......there are no living breathing humans that they cannot find something to like or a connection to make.......but i am not one of those people.....in fact, last night there was a brief but memorable non-encounter with the mother of a classmate of my eldest child.....who was pretending she didn't see me just about as much as i was pretending i didn't see her.......which makes me laugh again just thinking about it.....i just do not happen to like everyone i know.....let alone everyone i meet.....and though this sounds mean...it is certainly not without a warning shot......(reflect once again upon the name of this blog).......i suppose that i have ceased to feel the need to pretend......a reflex essential to the restaurant trade......where i saw that there are those who do not just pretend, but actually grovel in hopes of getting ahead in some shape or form.....i am certain that those who groveled in the past, to little avail, are groveling still...as if time or tenacity will pay off in the long haul.......i almost laughed aloud during the earlier-mentioned church service, when a local pastor was praying with such a forced jubilation to his voice that he sounded like one of those pay-for-view television preachers......life is much too short to be false in one's associations, whether at work or play...or worship for that matter.....and so, gentle readers, if you think that i like you, i probably do, because if i didn't....you'd have already figured that out.......