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in·ter·fer·ence (ntr-fîrns)
n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of hindering, obstructing, or impeding.
b. Something that hinders, obstructs, or impedes.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interference
n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of hindering, obstructing, or impeding.
b. Something that hinders, obstructs, or impedes.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interference
Or, someone. Or, a group of people. People who promise they will help and when you take them up on the offer, they ignore you and complain that they are too busy to worry about you. People that send you thirty text messages in rapid-fire succession saying you absolutely need to be at their engagement party, even if it means skipping a day of work or losing your job, even if you are homeless. Or, saying or doing anything which interferes in that person's life and not remembering or caring that this same thing interferes with the life of that person's fiancé. Or, agreeing to do something that person asks of you, had a full-length conversation with, with three or four other people around who were listening and then pretending that conversation never happened and you never agreed to help with anything.
We've even had several people from outside of our hometown, and even outside the state of South Carolina offer to help the best they can. Some of which we have never even met face-to-face!!! And yet, the people who are close to us, the ones who see us every day, the ones who are our family-- they will say one thing and turn their backs to us the next instant. They promise help, then wonder how we have the audacity to expect them to keep their word.
We have nothing! Kerry might possibly lose his job, which is potentially for the best all things considered, especially if he can get a job elsewhere. We have no home to move into, and after constantly shoving our wedding ( =>*elopement!*<= ) date forward more times than we can count, it's the big wedding of a different couple at the end of the year that's more important than ours, and by the way, we need to quit worrying because things aren't as bad as we've been making it out to be... the whole jobless/ homeless/ no money/ no wedding thing isn't really as bad as we said it is, and for the most part none of it's true. Well, we do have money after all (it just gets put into other people's bills all the time, and we borrow the rest of what we have from other people; that's not a problem). We haven't really pushed our wedding date away that many times (since 2007). Kerry isn't really homeless (after all, everyone has offered him their couch three times a week). And we aren't really jobless (just working as seasonal help until they cut him off, and by the way, his girlfriend is jobless).
And that thing about the engagement/ wedding on Gaia? What a stupid, pointless idea. Why would you do that, when you can have a perfectly free engagement party at the bar (where most of the people who will show up are better described as "acquaintances" rather than "friends", where people get drunk and make you uncomfortable, where the noise level and cigarette smoke bother you a lot, where your own family members cannot attend, since they don't go to bars, and your younger brother is a minor so he definitely cannot go)?
Why are we worried all the time? There are so many people who care about us. Why can't we learn to accept the help that is offered to us?
Seriously? Somebody seriously asked us that today? SERIOUSLY??
