quoting sebastian

it is incredibly annoying that people can't do things 'right' even after you've set the perfect example. last year erin (family friend)came over for the summer. but i left for china before she went back to taiwan. so when my mom went back to taiwan earlier this year i burned erin a cd of all the pictures we took last summer. but since there really weren't that many (a standard cd can hold about 1000 photos) i burned her some extra ones of my china trip. i went thru and selected a few very obvious landmarks from each place i went to so that basically she could follow my trip. i even renamed said photos so she knew wat she was looking at. i still had tons of left over space on the cd so i then added some pictures i had taken of school and my appt and some other random but pertinent things. at this point i still had the space but no more photos she would enjoy so i added a bunch of songs that we listened to last summer and a few more that i thought she would enjoy. i then wrote a lil card (after asking after her) and asked her to do the same. my mom came back this monday and told me that erin had indeed burned me a cd of her pictures. i came on the computer tonight to see and saw that less than 58 of the 680 megs were used. (i had already looked at the back of the cd and saw that tons of it was unused) ...i then saw that instead of just burning the pictures she rarred them. ...which is really annoying because i don't even have winrar on my home comp (i do at school however). and seriously, why rar if you can zip? everyone has winzip. not everyone has winrar. but i dunno. maybe winrar is more popular in taiwan? altho i doubt that because the stuff my dad gets from taiwan is always zipped. so were the pictures i got from china. anyway, so then i had to dl it, which was especially annoying because i have dailup at home so it took forever! so after however many minutes of the dl then the installation i extracted the files. guess how many photos there were? 158. that's right. no need to even compress them! further more she didn't even burn all her photos! and how do i kno this? because she didn't burn any from when we went to san fransisco! f*cking a! i mean. okay. so you're not as thoughtful as i am. you didn't include any extras on the cd. and you didn't put them into folders either so now i have to guess where you took the pictures. but oh my f*cking god why didn't you at the very least burn all your pictures? it's not like you didn't have space! and it definitely wasn't because you didn't have the time! you gave my mom this cd weeks before she came back to the states. and even before your new years break (which is like a month long). so why the hell couldn't you at the very least do wat i asked you to do? argh! i said to my rents too that i hoped she did it right. and my rents assured that of course she did it right. she's young and knows computers. well jack f*cking shit. and you kno wat? even if she didn't kno the slightest thing about computers and rarrred them accidentally somehow and didn't kno how make new folders and wat not. why didn't she burn all the photos? ...it pains me when i put in so much effort at something and then see that the person i gave all this effort to didn't even care enough to return the gesture. it really bothers me. it makes me feel like i shouldn't have cared so much for you in the first place. words are just words. but actions count. you may tell me that you're so happy you came and that you're so sad you're leaving and that you love me so damn much but you can't even return the favor that i gave you. ...am i really expecting too much of people? i mean... you should do things because you want to do them. not for wat you can get in return. but when you go that extra step. not just thinking about someone, but actually doing something that you think would make them happy, you do sorta expect them to think of you. at least a little. and then... i mean. why give gifts if you don't put into consideration about who you're giving it to? i think... a total lack of effort can be forgiven. it is an obvious lack of caring your behalf. one should realize this and move on and never do anything for you again. but when you do care enough to return the favor you should actually return the whole favor. otherwise wat's the point?