Thanks....but...

It's a fact of life that you have to put up with people that you don't particularly enjoy. Everyone knows someone who they could so happily do without. It's only natural to just ooze with hate when that one person walks by you.

My problem is something a whole lot deeper. Those people that I really could do without, could be happy to just plain ignore for the rest of my life.....they think I'm their friend.

Case example (apologies if by some random chance he ends up reading this, and I really mean RANDOM)

Mr. Li
'Known' him since grade 7. Being the nice person that I am, I agree to being his lab partner when no one else will. (Then again, the teacher then pulled me aside and said that she really appreciated it, and proceeded to give me candy...)
And so now he considers me to be his friend.
I don't really have a ton of easily written out examples, but when you have the kid that no one likes, because he's just so dumb, highly overweight, doesn't have a clue, and seems to like you, what do you do?
If I told him to buzz off, that I'm not his friend, what would happen to him?
I'm just too caring to brush people off so coldly.



Now the problem remains, how do I shake this person (and others) off my back? To flat out say "I'm tired of being your friend, you bother me, please leave me alone" will just kill them. So I can't say something like that. But the slow cooker method is even worse. To ignore them just makes more pain.

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You have a live chicken.
You are starving.

You can kill it instantly.
You can cook it in a slow cooker.
You can let it live it's entire life, then die.

Either way, it's going to die.