Sin Meme: Day Three
Day One: Pride - Seven great things about yourself
Day Two: Envy - Seven things you lack and covet
Day Three: Wrath - Seven things that piss you off
Day Four: Sloth - Seven things you neglect to do
Day Five: Greed - Seven worldly material desires
Day Six: Gluttony - Seven guilty pleasures
Day Seven: Lust - Seven love secrets
I was going to just wait for tomorrow instead of playing catch-up, but this category is SO DEPRESSINGLY EASY to write. I starting thinking of things that piss me off, and it turns out that's all the things.
1. People who tell me how I feel. I try very hard to communicate myself clearly to other people. It has taken me a long time to feel legitimate about many of my emotions. Therefore if we are talking, and I tell you I feel a certain way, do not negate that feeling or dismiss it or tell me that I do not mean what I say. Seriously. Fuck you if you do this to me. I instantly hate you. I also hate it if you do this to other people. Everyone's feelings are legitimate, even if you don't like them. Deal with it.
2. People who use things I believe in very strongly to justify evil actions. Namely God and Love. If you think your God wants you to hurt other people, limit their rights, call them names, control their bodies, deny them education, or tell them who to love, you are wrong about God. If you think that you can hurt, deceive, abuse, or control another person because you love them, you are wrong about love. I would really appreciate it if you stopped using these words incorrectly, because it makes it a lot harder for those of us who want to use them the right ways.
3. Shitty people with power/authority. This is most frustrating, of course, when they have authority over me. I do not like feeling that I am a smarter or better person than someone who has any amount of power in my life. I take authority very seriously when I am given a reason to respect it, and I will do everything in my power to fight it if I do not respect it. I believe that power hierarchies are very important and that respect is a two way street: people naturally fall into positions as leaders, followers, or intermediates, but being a leader does not mean you are allowed to control people. It means you are responsible for their well-being and development, and that you must respect them.
4. Traffic/being late. I will put these together because they often combine for furious bursts of road-rage. I HATE being late for anything that involves interacting with people I care about. I feel like a miserable waste of space when I am supposed to be with people and I am not and I am keeping them waiting. I am unfortunately very bad at managing my time and am late far more often than I'd like. Sometimes I am already late and then I get stuck in traffic. I hate needing to be somewhere and being immobile.
5. War. Honestly, what the everliving fuck. Why do we pay so much money to murder people? I don't understand it and I hate it.
6. Body sounds. This is going to sound weird, and it is. But there are certain specific sounds that people make that drive me absolutely insane. They make my skin crawl and they make me want to murder people. Including but not limited to: noisy eating (slurping, chewing, sucking, EUGH), rubbing scratchy clothing together, rubbing skin together, mouth-breathing, clicking fingernails. Basically if I can hear the sound someone's skin or mouth is making while it contacts something else, I want to tear my own skin off. I feel violently invaded. Incidentally, if I really, really like being around someone and feel very comfortable with them, I usually can tolerate their body-sounds or even enjoy them. I think something about the remote sensation of physical contact just sets off all of my weird personal-space alarms, and those alarms don't work when I am with people I love.
7. Computer problems. My laptop is my cyborg body (as is my car - see item # 4). If it freezes up or slows down or glitches out or gets attacked with malware, I feel like my body has suddenly stopped working. It is incredibly frustrating. I hate being in the middle of something and then suddenly being unable to do it because my interface is broken.
Day Two: Envy - Seven things you lack and covet
Day Three: Wrath - Seven things that piss you off
Day Four: Sloth - Seven things you neglect to do
Day Five: Greed - Seven worldly material desires
Day Six: Gluttony - Seven guilty pleasures
Day Seven: Lust - Seven love secrets
I was going to just wait for tomorrow instead of playing catch-up, but this category is SO DEPRESSINGLY EASY to write. I starting thinking of things that piss me off, and it turns out that's all the things.
1. People who tell me how I feel. I try very hard to communicate myself clearly to other people. It has taken me a long time to feel legitimate about many of my emotions. Therefore if we are talking, and I tell you I feel a certain way, do not negate that feeling or dismiss it or tell me that I do not mean what I say. Seriously. Fuck you if you do this to me. I instantly hate you. I also hate it if you do this to other people. Everyone's feelings are legitimate, even if you don't like them. Deal with it.
2. People who use things I believe in very strongly to justify evil actions. Namely God and Love. If you think your God wants you to hurt other people, limit their rights, call them names, control their bodies, deny them education, or tell them who to love, you are wrong about God. If you think that you can hurt, deceive, abuse, or control another person because you love them, you are wrong about love. I would really appreciate it if you stopped using these words incorrectly, because it makes it a lot harder for those of us who want to use them the right ways.
3. Shitty people with power/authority. This is most frustrating, of course, when they have authority over me. I do not like feeling that I am a smarter or better person than someone who has any amount of power in my life. I take authority very seriously when I am given a reason to respect it, and I will do everything in my power to fight it if I do not respect it. I believe that power hierarchies are very important and that respect is a two way street: people naturally fall into positions as leaders, followers, or intermediates, but being a leader does not mean you are allowed to control people. It means you are responsible for their well-being and development, and that you must respect them.
4. Traffic/being late. I will put these together because they often combine for furious bursts of road-rage. I HATE being late for anything that involves interacting with people I care about. I feel like a miserable waste of space when I am supposed to be with people and I am not and I am keeping them waiting. I am unfortunately very bad at managing my time and am late far more often than I'd like. Sometimes I am already late and then I get stuck in traffic. I hate needing to be somewhere and being immobile.
5. War. Honestly, what the everliving fuck. Why do we pay so much money to murder people? I don't understand it and I hate it.
6. Body sounds. This is going to sound weird, and it is. But there are certain specific sounds that people make that drive me absolutely insane. They make my skin crawl and they make me want to murder people. Including but not limited to: noisy eating (slurping, chewing, sucking, EUGH), rubbing scratchy clothing together, rubbing skin together, mouth-breathing, clicking fingernails. Basically if I can hear the sound someone's skin or mouth is making while it contacts something else, I want to tear my own skin off. I feel violently invaded. Incidentally, if I really, really like being around someone and feel very comfortable with them, I usually can tolerate their body-sounds or even enjoy them. I think something about the remote sensation of physical contact just sets off all of my weird personal-space alarms, and those alarms don't work when I am with people I love.
7. Computer problems. My laptop is my cyborg body (as is my car - see item # 4). If it freezes up or slows down or glitches out or gets attacked with malware, I feel like my body has suddenly stopped working. It is incredibly frustrating. I hate being in the middle of something and then suddenly being unable to do it because my interface is broken.