Ramblings of an Anonymous Coward

Me? Neurotic?

trying something a little different, i had a chat with this fellow, one that seems to have more degrees than bruce lee and jackie chan combined. it was the last time for sure, partly because he's leaving town (moving his practice) and partly because i think i'd have to go all mental on him. you know, like squint and strain really hard to see if i really could light his chair on fire. that sort of thing. i must, however, inject that he was kind enough to take the time to talk with me and offer me plenty of advice to consider ignore. it was all sound advice i'm sure, but some things he said really stuck in my craw.

granted he didn't say i was neurotic just that some things i have done are consistent with that behavior. dude. why didn't you just say i'm fucking whacked and be done with it. i mean really, i would either smack the crap out of you, cry like a girl (no offense ladies, just using my writer's license here), or do what i did and thank you, shake your hand, and eventually decide to blog about it.

allowing yourself to suffer a continual just-bearable pain in order to avoid facing a larger, scarier, and possibly unbearable one isn't completely uncommon.

not completely uncommon. great!

yeah! yeah. Like most things lately, i'm reading far too much into what was being said by either seeing really negative -- the world may as well end today -- signs, or quite simply the opposite. scott adams said it best...

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs.

yeah, that about sums it up. i'm at least partly-human.

 

Posted by ac at November 6, 2003 07:04 PM