Remember that time there was drama? Good times, good times...
(Ganked from Facebook.)
I know a lot of you will give me the side-eye when you read this, but I am actually a very emotionally bottled-up guy. Yes, yes, I know, you all know the loud and gregarious guy whose only athletic ability is pole-vaulting over "the line", but it's true. Emotions (other than amusement and anger) scare me, so I keep them all very much under lock and key.
It's not healthy, I know, but that's actually not what I came here to talk about. What I came to talk about is one of the silver linings of that particular cloud, and that is more or less being in control of myself at all times. If you will look just below the surface, beneath all of the raucous laughter, bad/inappropriate jokes and rock n' roll, you will see that there is little-to-no drama in my life. And you know what? I *like* having no drama in my life. It suits me right down to the ground. I like it when things in my life go smoothly, and I also like being largely unruffled when something does go wrong.
A downside, though, is that I don't really know how to handle other people's drama. I can be supportive and offer consolation when something bad happens to someone near me, but... when someone lives their life at the center of a veritable maelstrom of drama (and said maelstrom being of their own making), I just... I don't know what the hell to do. It mystifies me, because "SMASH IT DOWN!!" is not a viable option. So in the absence of being able to forcibly make it go away, I tend to just kinda sit there in a state of puzzlement.
So yeah. This is me sitting here in a state of puzzlement, thinking out loud and Vaguebooking. Blah.
I know a lot of you will give me the side-eye when you read this, but I am actually a very emotionally bottled-up guy. Yes, yes, I know, you all know the loud and gregarious guy whose only athletic ability is pole-vaulting over "the line", but it's true. Emotions (other than amusement and anger) scare me, so I keep them all very much under lock and key.
It's not healthy, I know, but that's actually not what I came here to talk about. What I came to talk about is one of the silver linings of that particular cloud, and that is more or less being in control of myself at all times. If you will look just below the surface, beneath all of the raucous laughter, bad/inappropriate jokes and rock n' roll, you will see that there is little-to-no drama in my life. And you know what? I *like* having no drama in my life. It suits me right down to the ground. I like it when things in my life go smoothly, and I also like being largely unruffled when something does go wrong.
A downside, though, is that I don't really know how to handle other people's drama. I can be supportive and offer consolation when something bad happens to someone near me, but... when someone lives their life at the center of a veritable maelstrom of drama (and said maelstrom being of their own making), I just... I don't know what the hell to do. It mystifies me, because "SMASH IT DOWN!!" is not a viable option. So in the absence of being able to forcibly make it go away, I tend to just kinda sit there in a state of puzzlement.
So yeah. This is me sitting here in a state of puzzlement, thinking out loud and Vaguebooking. Blah.