Friday is Tone It Down Day
OK.
So I've been on a bit of a rant lately. And I apologize for my sometimes over-the-top outbursts. After reading this article about how rage can literally kill a man, well, I think it's time to tone it down a bit again. For me. Personally.
It's just that every time for the past 6 years, literally every time I think they've gone and done the worst possible thing, they do something else. You know who the "they" is, and a lot of the people who may or may not be reading this at the very least agree that the people in charge are terrible. I've taken it a little further than that, often to the point of feeling personally threatened by the abuses of power being slung from the highest levels.
I know that feelings are neither right nor wrong, they just are, it's how you respond to those feelings that makes you a good person, a raving lunatic, a homicidal killer, or an abject cynic. I'd like to be a good person. I think, for the most part anyway, I am.
There are so many things going on in my life that I'm excited about and feel good about and enjoy, so I'm going to try to focus on those things rather than on how the people in charge are trying to undermine the very foundation of the country that would allow me to pursue all of those previously mentioned good things. See how this gets to be circular for me quickly?
I wish I was more like my Dad. He's incredibly smart, very thoughtful, rational, intellectual, sees things in a broad perspective, and he doesn't really let things bother him. Maybe he does and he just doesn't show it. Or maybe he has better coping mechanisms than I do. I dunno. I still wish I was more like him. I'm always going off half-cocked in a reactionary knee-jerk kind of way and I just envision myself flailing about wildly where he maintains that peaceful center in the middle of chaos.
Anyway, I'm going to try not get so incensed about things. I'm not going to ignore the bad things that are going on in this country (and trust me, there are a LOT of bad things going on right now), but for my health and sanity, I'm gonna try to be more thoughtful about them and not so fired up.
/Also, sorry about the bad language, Mom.
So I've been on a bit of a rant lately. And I apologize for my sometimes over-the-top outbursts. After reading this article about how rage can literally kill a man, well, I think it's time to tone it down a bit again. For me. Personally.
It's just that every time for the past 6 years, literally every time I think they've gone and done the worst possible thing, they do something else. You know who the "they" is, and a lot of the people who may or may not be reading this at the very least agree that the people in charge are terrible. I've taken it a little further than that, often to the point of feeling personally threatened by the abuses of power being slung from the highest levels.
I know that feelings are neither right nor wrong, they just are, it's how you respond to those feelings that makes you a good person, a raving lunatic, a homicidal killer, or an abject cynic. I'd like to be a good person. I think, for the most part anyway, I am.
There are so many things going on in my life that I'm excited about and feel good about and enjoy, so I'm going to try to focus on those things rather than on how the people in charge are trying to undermine the very foundation of the country that would allow me to pursue all of those previously mentioned good things. See how this gets to be circular for me quickly?
I wish I was more like my Dad. He's incredibly smart, very thoughtful, rational, intellectual, sees things in a broad perspective, and he doesn't really let things bother him. Maybe he does and he just doesn't show it. Or maybe he has better coping mechanisms than I do. I dunno. I still wish I was more like him. I'm always going off half-cocked in a reactionary knee-jerk kind of way and I just envision myself flailing about wildly where he maintains that peaceful center in the middle of chaos.
Anyway, I'm going to try not get so incensed about things. I'm not going to ignore the bad things that are going on in this country (and trust me, there are a LOT of bad things going on right now), but for my health and sanity, I'm gonna try to be more thoughtful about them and not so fired up.
/Also, sorry about the bad language, Mom.