People can take you for granted. Only for the reason that you let things go. Sometimes, it is okay to make fun of you in a casual manner so that you can laugh at yourself but everything has a limit not to cross to. Our own maturity lets us down in reciprocating and thus, everything sums up and reaches a boiling point where we start cutting out. Why is it that these bunch of idiots don't mind their own bloody business and remain in their arses rather than poking into others' matters unnecessarily?
The most pricking point is that, we all have a certain bunch who just can't keep their mouth shut when someone pokes at us. Laughter erupts - the snobby type- more annoying than just the talk. Thinking to keep it calm, composed and uncaring, the mistake occurs. The poking heightens! With more dumbfucks joining, this gets onto your nerves. Poking is never balanced - you make fun of the person and it is just not acceptable! Making fun of people to get a sadistic pleasure is the quality of a wannabe loser. An asshole, in fact!
Adding to the fire is the back-talk! A speciality with us Indians. Gossiping about the friend behind their back and then making fun in front is not cool. When properly questioned, comes the answer that this is just for gags! THIS IS NOT FUN, you dumb shithole! It is just plain fake behaviour displaying sheer dumbness.
The fact that hurts is of the way they behave after treating in such a manner. You then start appearing like a trash, something of no value and respect, a feat not in the lines of what they term as friendship. Friends do exactly the opposite and would always be the ones to support rather than making fun for the heck of it and not feeling an inch of sorry in them. If they really knew the value of friendship, the back-talk and the pokes wouldn't have occurred in the very first place!
Throughout my life so far, I've been in search of good people, compatible with and like to embrace them with an open heart. I tend to connect for that one unique quality in them with distinguishes them from the "aam junta". But also to some for the sake of it through a mutual contact. Do avoid such! The choice of choosing people to network with, lies in our own hands. Was it a mistake to outlay the stupidity of our friends so that we don't see them repeat it again, thinking of their own good? Or was it our very own maturity to let things off and not retort. Or is it that inconsonant choice of ours to misunderstand the relation as pals and not just another silly crowd.
I don't know. So, all you semi-introverts like me, show the finger if somebody pokes at you and remove them from your contacts. You tend to loose nothing if they aren't in your friend's list and neither it matters to them. After all, they are there just to make fun of you and nothing else. And if a fight erupts, be ready to hit and face some punches and kicks. It gets you a respect in a way, at the least to yourself!