Well I’m making friends all round today!

Yesterday one of the local amateur theatre companies that I have worked with before sent out a newsletter and it was for want of a better word…shit. It had spelling mistakes all through it, it was highly negative, there were sentences that didn’t make sense and very little information about anything the club was doing or had done. Even the updated version she sent a couple of hours later had text boxes overlaying one another so it was completely unreadable. It pissed me off. So I reformatted the thing, fixed the spelling mistakes, the grammar mistakes, made it positive, added a review about their latest show “The Importance of Being Earnest”, put some stuff in about their upcoming auditions and wrote a little thing about a director the club has worked with who recently passed away.

Today I got a response which was incredibly rude and I think if she had wanted to would have contained the phase “fuck off we are doing great”. I couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t expecting a “Oh Emma thank you! You are our saviour!” but to get angry at someone for offering assistance? WTF! I could have sent the thing to the whole mailing list if I wanted to but I didn’t I sent it just to the theatre manager to which she got angry and pissed off.

Why do I even bother? Why do people immediately get defensive and pissed off when someone offers assistance? Is it better to discourage people from helping so that your pride isn’t hurt or is it better to actually admit that you need some help and be appreciative of it when it is offered, especially when it isn’t asked for?

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe we should only offer help to those who ask for it. Maybe I am a self important bitch who thinks I know better when in reality I’m not seeing the whole picture. Maybe I should just shut up and keep my opinions to myself. Maybe I should just watch people destroy themselves and learn from their own mistakes rather than trying to help.

If the response is going to be anything like the one I received from this woman I am not bothering anymore. This club is dead set on destroying itself because it won’t admit that it is in trouble. It would rather go on thinking it is doing fabulously than actually accept that it is headed for a massive disaster. All I offered was help and instead of a thanks but no thanks, I got completely shat on.

It’s just not worth helping people anymore.

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