Occasionally you just cannot talk sense into people.
It can be seriously aggravating and infuriating when you feel like you have useful advice that someone will not heed.
This is why I tried to keep my opinions to myself and let people make their own mistakes these afternoons. I have been burned too various times by engaging in deep, constructive conversations that go genuinely nowhere when my friends and family ignore everything that I say. Eventually I realized that I’m fatigued of this back and forth. I would rather just let people make their own mistakes while I sit back and watch. That’s why I’m standing in a plastic grass chair right now, burning up in my dress and wishing that I was in air conditioning, but for the past many years my best buddy has been planning his outdoor ceremony and I have held my tongue about the air quality problems. I always thought it was a different choice to have your large ceremony in a space separate from any air conditioning or heating options! Living in an part of the country with a tumultuous climate means you never know if you should expect burning sizzling or chilly chilly air, and you genuinely need a central heating and cooling system inside of your household to stay comfortable everyday. Why would you ever subject your ceremony to potential disaster with a sizzling and humid summer time day or a spontaneously chilly chilly front? I did not want to get in a fight with my best buddy over his lack of Heating and Air Conditioning at his ceremony so I did not say anything. Now, it’s a hundred degrees outside, there’s no AC to be found, and I’ve already seen 3 guests pass out from heat stroke.