Don't hate the messenger!

First off let me start off by saying that if you don't do triflin' things then people wouldn't have a reason to be suspicious about you and/or make stories up about you that it is possible other people COULD believe...........refer back to my "what are you notorious for?" blog for further clarification. Secondly, it baffles me that certain people always feel the need to get mad at the messenger.......hate the messenger.......call the messenger a "hater"........when their DIRTY business gets put out on front street.......when their lies are unveiled.......when their poor decisions affect the people they SUPPOSEDLY care about. I've said time and time again that the grape vine is in constant motion. Staying OUT of the grape vine is about an impossible task. It's the things that you do that go into the grape vine.........negative or positive......but it is the negative that typically moves through the grape vine quicker. The more people you know the more grape vine ya get. If I hear some horrible information or news that has to do with you doin' a FRIEND OF MINE dirty......then I'mma be the first to absorb the information.......take careful notes......question my source(s).........question the information, and if it sounds in or out of character of the offender. If I feel it SEEMS to be valid based on that process of thinking then yeah I'm gonna tell my friend. I don't LIKE to be provided with horrible information about something that could affect my friend(s). Often times I can't stand it actually because then I've got to go through this thought process........when and how I'm gonna tell my friend.......and yes.......I'm gonna tell my friend, as I would expect he or she to do the same for me if the roles were reversed. Who am I to deny my friend information that could possibly have an adverse effect on their life? I know the number one question I always get is "who told you?" and the number one thing people hate to hear from me when I provide information is "I don't reveal my sources." I don't reveal my sources because I check my sources and it doesn't matter who the information comes from in my opinion.........if you did the dirt.......YOU DID THE DIRT......it then becomes your fault that you had a leak in your pool and your dirt is now out for those to hear about. Do you people honestly think that I like to hear messed up crap that you are doin' to my friend? Would you hold it in if it was YOUR friend? DOUBT IT! I hate that their is even the possibility of people doin' my friend(s) wrong but it is what it is. I'm a REAL FRIEND so EXPECT if I hear some jacked up stuff you've done and I feel it's valid then I'm gonna be a "hater" and I'm gonna disclose "it could or could not be valid information, but I thought you should know" after every time........it is then my friends turn to do as they please with the situation/information. I DON'T BENEFIT from hearing your dirty business! It is actually a burden to me because I have to face my friend(s) to tell them crappy news that more than likely is gonna hurt them in some way. So you can call me a "hater" ALL DAY LONG if it makes YOU feel better about your dirty business, but know that I don't benefit from it, I don't like it, and I don't do it for selfish reasons......I do it to protect the people I care about and love and that's it. You can't hate the messenger for hearing the information! You either hate yourself for doing the dirty business OR you hate the person that fabricated the story that made it into the grape vine for me to hear because I sure as hell am not the one fabricatin' stories just so I can hate on you.......be real......I have much more important things to do and problems of my own to deal with. GROW UP!!!!!!!!!! For the record.......I commend and appreciate those unselfish and genuine messengers that relay information to protect ones they care about and love. PROPS TO THE LEGITIMATE "HATERS"!