Pissing People off

Apparently I've been very good lately at pissing people off with the truth at the "wrong time". I think that (at times) people really need to know the truth and how others see situations or things that are going on around them. Yes, the truth hurts, but you need to hear it.

Take for example:
I was asked to work on a project with some people that I consider friends. They approached me a week ago about a video project they wanted my help with. I initially said yes because all they wanted was casting from me and that is easy enough. Things started snowballing. First, the dates weren't set in stone, neither were the locations. Then people started getting "bothered" by the fact that I was pushing for answers and they weren't giving me any. So I started getting frustrated and I took it out of Jakob. That is when I realized that this wasn't the right thing for me to be doing. If I am going to get all stressed and bothered by something that I have no control over, then I need to back away. I had done what I had been asked to do and had received very little response or firm answers. Last night Jakob and I had a long discussion and turns out he felt along the same lines. So we came up with the only solution that would save my mental state: back away. Jakob wrote a lengthy email covering all our topics and concerns to our friend. We told the truth. We were afraid that this person was being taken advantage of by the person who contacted them in the first pace and in turn was inadvertently taking advantage of those working on the project. Apparently this was the wrong thing to do. I don't know how they took it, but I have a feeling it wasn't good. The responses weren't positive by any means.

So was it wrong for me to say what I was thinking (in a positive and diplomatic way I believe). I may have just made an "enemy" out of someone who I considered my friend, so now I'm a bit worried about what is going to happen. I mean it is out of my hands now and on their plate. Perhaps they feel that I left them "hanging" or "out to dry" or any more of those cliche remarks. Perhaps in their eyes I did, but in mine, I didn't. I should have spoke up that first meeting, but things were being thrown left and right. I had an interesting feeling after that first meeting and that feeling never went away after all that.

Another instance was when I was in the faculty room the other day. There are some large teachers here that are constantly complaining about their weight or their diet or that they can't do all the stuff their students want them to or they can't teach standing all day, they've got to sit down. And I noticed that the majority of these teachers drink 1 litre of diet soda a day. I never see them without it. So I decided to do something about it. I printed off an article about the effects of diet soda on the human body and placed it in their boxes. Most of them commented the next day that the article made them think a little. But one of the teachers went completely rampant. They started saying that who ever put that article in their box didn't have the right to and that it wasn't any of their business that they drink diet soda.

Yeah, perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut more.