Dear Person,

Please don’t give me anymore reason to spew out more truths about you or to name who you are because we both know very well you have nothing against me. While I, I have every ammunition there is.

Please stop acting like we are the ones making you “api.” Coz nobody is buying your b*llshit. A lot of people have witnessed first hand how much of an asshole you are and how unprofessional you are. Not to mention an attention whore who loves hogging all the credit.

I have always wondered why you don’t have permanent friends, and love to cling to people who obviously don’t enjoy hanging out with you all that much. NOW I KNOW.

You think the lies you have spread about me won’t reach me? I’m sorry to tell you, my influence and radar reaches far and wide, even if I don’t try.

Yes, I might have found you annoying and yes, might have even hated you from the start. But I have never disrespected you, never acted out of spite against you, and never even spoke in public about it. Because I know our personal rift is not for the public to know about. Even when your personal issues against me have affected our work, I have not spoken about it.

And even when you have so obviously disrespected me and have been saying things about me, even when you have used me, abused me and my friends, and treated me and my friends poorly, I have kept my mouth shut. Even when you have stepped out of bounds, claimed the fame and credit for the work that I and my friends have done diligently, I have kept my mouth shut. For the sake of the other people who might be involved. And because I am not so petty as to not like people who do not like me. Also, you see, you hating me isn’t a big deal to me because you have never been my friend anyway, you have never acted like one and you don’t deserve that much attention and energy.

But you have pushed me to a corner by telling lies against me and my friends. Don’t think that people are as stupid as you think they are because nobody is as stupid as a person who has no self-awareness and claims to know everything, somebody like you.

Don’t dare say I flirted with your friend. Sorry to say, I don’t like your friend. And that night you were talking about? My goodness, it is not in my nature to fake being friendly with people I don’t like. We haven’t been talking with each other at that point but you were the one who made the move to introduce me to your friend. Please don’t tell lies. We both know which one of us loves flirting more to the point of stepping lines that should never be crossed.

Don’t even tell people I am not a person that you’d like to hang out with because I have never forced myself to hang out with you. And please look around you, how many people actually like you? How many friends do you really have? Besides, I’d rather be someone people hate at the start but end up liking or loving. Rather than be someone people like at the start but end up hating.

And professionally? Excuse me but please compare our ages and then compare how much we have accomplished. Do I even have to elaborate?

And what feedback have you gotten from the people you have worked with? I, on the other hand, along with the other members of our group, have done so well and deserve the credit that we are getting. You, on the other hand, only have one skill that you have perfected, delegating. Oh, another skill you have perfected? CREDIT HOGGING!

You treat people like they are beneath you and deserve no respect. And you claim you are just pushing them to do their best? That’s funny. A true leader knows how to motivate people, how to inspire them. First of all, how to lead by example. Please don’t pretend like you led a team. They were a team. We were a team. You were never a part of those teams. Because you choose to act like you are not part of the team, not because we don’t want you to be part of the team.

You know, if you didn’t open your big mouth and tell people all those lies, I would have shut up. I would have let things be. After all, you don’t really matter in my world. But when you start telling people lies about me and my friends, even when it is you who have disrespected and offended us, then you have crossed the line.

You wonder why people thrive on intrigue? Excuse me, but we have kept our mouths shut for the longest time, but you just had to make it look to people as if we were the ones doing you wrong. And that is a lie.

You wonder why people are keen on burning bridges? It is because the path towards you leads to nothing but stress and anger. Yes, we know what burning a bridge means. Please don’t think we’re stupid. And why, you ask, we’d gladly burn a bridge towards you? Because you, yourself, have made it impossible for us to trust you, to work with you, or to be friends with you, if you even know what the word “friend” means. You were the one who started spreading lies. And you wonder why we’re burning the bridge? You must be stupid.

Stop pretending like we are the ones at fault and that you were the one wronged. I have kept my mouth shut for a long time because I didn’t want other people and groups to suffer as a consequence. But enough is enough. You have mistreated a lot of people, abused the power you think you have, and have said so many lies my head is spinning.

If you don’t want anymore intrigue or any more truths about you to come out, JUST SHUT UP!

Maria “Ria” A. Jose