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suspect card: Was this card meant to be an insult?
Hi as a going away present a woman gave me a
bottle of rum along with a card with a demented
looking sheep on the cover. We used to be friendly in the beginning but that fizzled out to the point where i'd say we were no longer friends.
My question is was the card meant to be an insult?
Many thanks
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If you are so worried about it being an insult that the possibility even occurred to you in the first place, then I can safely say that your self confidence and self esteem could use some work. Maybe you have some, but not enough to where things like this create thoughts in your mind that are negative about you not positive or no meaning at all. I would say she simply was trying to find a card to go along with the gift. If it wasn't a bottle of rum for a gift, I'll bet the card would have been different.
Now here's another way to look at it. Do you really think that foremost in the mind of the creator of that card design was that it would make a perfect insult to the receiver? Just picturing someone actually creating a card for that purpose makes me laugh as it is so silly. Just because she was no longer a friend does not mean she was instantly an enemy. There are friends and enemies but there are a whole lot of people who fall in between those two descriptions, people you don't know who also don't know you or people who have changes enough so they have nothing much in common to remain friends. You and I don't know each other. So I am of course not a friend of yours. Does that make me your enemy? Of course not! The world isn't as black and white as you seem to think. There are many grey areas or those areas in between. She wouldn't have got you a gift if she hated you. If no hate, then this was simply a thoughtful gift and a card meant to be funny, a sheep looking like it just drank a whole bottle of rum. Forget about worrying about insults, work on your self confidence and enjoy your bottle of rum.
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