Laurabeth, I understand your frustration and I believe I understand from where it comes. Here is a piece of advice a wise person told me once: To change something in someone else, you must first change something within yourself.
To stop being frustrated and disappointed in people, I learned not to expect other people to do the things I think they should, but to accept each person where he/she is at that moment. If I can help the person, I do. If I cannot, I do not expect his/her circumstances to change at all because I did nothing to change them.
So, if my sole contribution was telling everyone to "play nice," I certainly would not expect them to do so particularly because I really did not invest anything of myself to change the circumstances.
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