This will make no sense and I'll likely delete it tomorrow, but maybe typing it out will help it unravel
I'm starting to think that maybe I'm a bit more messed up by something that happened years ago than I originally thought.
Though I don't think it's the event itself that's bugging me now.
I'm fairly set in the mindset that it happened and that's that.
I think what is bothering me more was how I dealt with it and how the people around me did. Or rather person. As I only told one person.
Because it would have screwed a lot of sh*t up telling anyone else.
But anyway.
Sh*t happens. If you go out & get so wrecked that all judgement goes out the window for both of you, sh*t happens. And by the time you have a second of clarity through the booze haze to realise what is going on, it's already done. And you were too frigging blotto to say no anyway.
And approximately 10 years of awkwardness ensues. I say 10 years. I still feel awkward. But I'm actually comfortable enough around this person again now that I can function properly around them.
… Except for a brief moment while driving home from helping them out, where i took a corner too fast in the dark and almost end up skidding his car off the road and in to a farmers field.

But I digress.
When I told the third party person the next day, their attitude was just like "they're good looking, though"
Glossing over a few points there, really weren't we?
I mean… she had a bit more information than I've put here, had also met this person and knew their background.
Main points are that we're very vaguely related, there's a 14 year age gap,I was p*ssed as a fart. (but so were they so judgement could have been off?
A recent brief mention in conversation leads me to believe this may be the case)
Anyway. I told her because the situation wasn't ideal. I wasn't good with the situation, the situation was incredibly uncomfortable and I felt a bit wronged. Taken advantage of. I felt stupid.
and I also needed someone to hold my hand to go the clinic.
Her reaction sits with me as if it was along the lines of:
"oh it's OK because the person concerned was aesthetically pleasant"
I can't remember right now the exact words she said. Probably more like "what's wrong with you, they're alright" (as in alright looking)
Maybe she had a brain fart and didn't quite grasp the side of the situation where I went out for a few beers with this person, and didn't exactly set out to end up being screwed on my living room floor by them, left wondering if I had consented or not (I don't think I would have, but being p*ssed as a fart I would have just likely gone along with the whole thing because I'm dumb like that. But either way, it had happened and couldn't be changed, my own fault, lesson learned)
but it bothers me. If she did grasp the situation and that I was uncomfortable with it all, why would she say that being attractive makes it ok?
It doesn't. It wasn't right.
But eh. like I said, sh*t happens.
Hmm. I'm not sure I really had a point here.
Oh well