Sunday, March 05, 2006

Abject Sorrow

I've been disturbed for the past few days by my friend Margz's recent experience. It's been bothering me, nagging at the back of my mind since I first learned of what had happened.

The whole ugly story is online for anyone who knows where to look. I am so incredibly disappointed and dismayed to see how someone she has loved and supported for so many years can turn on her, humiliate her publicly, and encourage other people to gang up on her in an online public forum. I felt like I was watching some soap opera scene unfold... where the Mean Girls are lording it over a girl they had all just finished beating up and now are just spitting on her for the sheer "fun" of it.

Is this how you repay all the years of fan loyalty and support? All these years she has she considered you a great friend, and you told her you consider her a friend as well. If you were truly a friend, you would have called her up and asked for her side of the story. You would have asked her for an explanation. You would have given her a chance to defend herself against all the lies that your new friends have been feeding you.

You don't get together with your new friends and pose for a photo where they're holding up their middle fingers, then post the photo in an online public forum and tell her that the finger is meant for her.

You don't have your friends post messages publicly telling her that she's "just a fan" and that she should know her own place and not presume to be in the inner circle. Especially if all your actions over the years have led her to believe that she's in the inner circle in the first place.

So much for that angelic image.

The whole situation makes me want to break my new year's resolution about cursing. It also fills me with much sorrow for the hurt and betrayal that my poor friend is experiencing.

When I think of all the money Margz has spent buying you presents you don't need, or paying for banners to support you in your shows, or the times when she has bought you birthday cakes and visited you at your tapings... it makes me feel sick to my stomach that this is how you have chosen to repay her years of friendship and support.

I hope one day the truth will be revealed and my friend's name will be cleared at last.

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Posted by CF at 4:30 PM

2 Comments

  1. Blogger saffron_blue posted at 3/07/2006 4:46 PM  
    makes me sad to hear things like that happening. how's margz now? "angelic image", is that a hint at the offender's identity?
  2. Anonymous Anonymous posted at 3/07/2006 8:40 PM  
    I still get upset when I think about it. Nakakalungkot at nakakainis at the same time.

    Margz is adjusting and doing her best to move on. Pero siyempre, it's still hard.

    And yes, that was a hint. You're as perceptive as always!

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