You Think You Know... You Have No IDEA.

To whom it may concern,

Besides having to write this for class, I have been curious about what to write for my blog posts. I believe I have finally found something that has made me angry enough to write about. There is a great misunderstanding with people that must be cleared up.

If you think you know me "too well" or "pretty well" you are wrong. There have been some rumors flying around and people talking about me behind my back. Most of these people seem to feel that they know me rather well. Well you obviously don't know me well enough to know, I hate people talking behind my back. You should stop.

There are very few people in this world that can say they know me well, and they would never say they know me "too well" or "pretty well." These people are some of my very close friends, my family and my amazing girlfriend. Everyone else, you are wrong. Do you not know me well and you should stop talking about me like you do, otherwise you will look like an idiot.

Don't feel like I dislike you simply because you don't know me as well as some. Just feel privileged that I am not calling you out by name. For those of you that I have only know for a year or so, I am not talking about you. I am talking to those of you that feel because you have known my name for 3-4, you have a complete understanding of who I am as a person.

I will fill you in. What you don't know is my utter dislike for the use of names, year in school, job, major, to define a person. I am much more complex than a simple one word answer. Furthermore, YOU have not been by my side when terrible things happen. YOU have not had a conversation with me about what I am most passionate about. YOU don't know my background and how that has shaped my present. Before you go telling people about how great of friends we are, you should perhaps get to know a couple of these things.

I will call you out for your mistakes in the future. Take this as a warning.

A word of advice from someone that does know me well. "Eric, you either love someone or hate them from the get-go." Try not to be the latter.

I would like to make one thing clear. I understand I am being somewhat immature with my decision to post this on a blog and not talk to the culprits in person. But I feel that this can be good information for all of you that may feel you know me or any other person for that matter, "pretty well." I implore you, do your research before you make grandiose accusations about a relationship you have with a person. If not for my sake, for the sake of all the good hearted well-intentioned people that don't like to hear from someone else about how you feel they are only a good person if you barely know them. "I must know him too well" is an insult and you need to recognize that.

I apologize to those of you that are not arrogant and have not offended me. You suffered through one of my rants. I rarely speak out, I rather dislike conflict. However, sometimes one must enter into conflict in order to prevent inner turmoil.

The rest of my posts will hopefully be much more dull and have much less drama.

Thank you for reading. Come again... Please