You may have some negative emotions concerning THEM:
“Don’t they know who I am? They can’t do this to me”
“They are going to regret this, I’ll show them”
You may also be deluded:
“They are going to call back when they realize how much they need me”
You need to get this sorted.
Bay’s Talk will help you gain a Christian perspective; let me offer something more secular.
You need to distinguish between THEY and ‘they’, and you need to distinguish between YOU and ‘you’.
You see THEY were just doing ‘business’ – providing ‘products’ to ‘customers’, utilizing ‘suppliers’ and ‘capital’ (even Human Capital) to do so. THEY used to use ‘you’. THEY also used to make a ‘profit’, which meant THEY could use more of ‘you’, now THEY need less of ‘you’, much less of ‘you’.
But THEY are also ‘they’, and ‘they’ may well be married, sometimes with children and usually with a mortgage (one of ‘those’). ‘They’ didn’t necessarily think of you as ‘you’ but YOU. ‘They’ got told by THEM to do something about ‘you’, so ‘they’ had to do something about YOU. ‘They’ liked YOU: THEY didn’t need ‘you’.
‘You’ may no longer have anything to do with THEM, but YOU can still be good friend with some of ‘them’. And YOU still have a life.
*Michael Jensen has written a book called YOU available from here.
