I have always been a very good judge of character. I have the gift of discernment on many levels.
When people rub me the wrong way I rub them off permanently!- latoya lawrence
I am not nor have I ever been a materialistic person or a needy person.
I do not require others for emotional stability or financial support to thrive or survive, I am self-sufficient.
My mother raised me with much love, strength, wisdom, security, and faith in God above.
My divine creator supplies all my needs.
When people who I was not fond of sent me cards or gave me a present I did not accept or appreciate their effort.
I did not care about the time that it took for them to shop around for me.
I have thrown out a card or two without even opening them- I did not even care if money was inside of it.
I told a relative on my father’s side of the family years ago that I did not want the present that she was ready to give to me when I visited their family down in South Carolina for the Christmas holiday twenty years ago.
“You don’t want it?!” My father’s aunt had exclaimed to me in shock. “Any of the others (my young cousins) would have loved to get a gift”, she added in response to my unexpected reaction.
“Then give it to one of them”, I said in return nonchalantly and rather coldly.
This woman was upset and intended to return the item she had purchased for me back to the store where she worked instead of just giving it to someone else.
This aunt of my father’s had acknowledged to me that she had not bought a Christmas gift for another relative and did not want it to get back to them that she had gotten me something and not them.
The incident had gotten back to them anyhow when one of her adult sons approached me in front of her (the cousin she did not buy a gift for) and another cousin (one of his own daughters) about hurting his mother’s feelings by not wanting and accepting her Christmas present.
I was not fazed or intimidated by his attitude. His words went through one ear and out the other with me.
When I do not like someone- even if it is a relative- I will reject their offerings. I do not care to receive anything from them, and I will not hesitate to let them know how I feel.
It is not the gift that matters to me, it is the person who is behind the actions.
If there is a person who is significant to me, or is in my zone of congeniality then I will respect or show courtesy.
LaToya 