Have you ever felt certain ways about certain things/ people when you know they are unfair or irrational? Case in point: my fear of spiders. Or, discontent with your significant other’s exes or opposite sex friends. What about a friend of a friend? Or someone that reminds you of an Ex you ended up unhappy with. A relative or a stranger who unknowingly pushes a button.
I choose to believe that the first example is legitimate and that someday, when the spiders begin their apocalyptic takeover of the world those of us with said phobia can say “We told you so” and those of you who have mocked us can cry “why didn’t I listen before it was too late”. It will go down in history alongside global warming or cooling or whatever, and the frame of mind that Bush was a good idea (either of them) – people will wish they weren’t so stupid.
However, I hate feeling such things towards people! Even if I COULD have a legitimate reason to dislike them, I find myself either pissed at myself yet unrelenting of the feelings, or overcompensating when I realize I associated them with someone or something in an unfair way that led to negative feelings. Even if I could be right and I should not like them (as I have been in the past) all that it does is make my own life more complicated in the mean time. These are the self proclaimed neurosis that actually get in the way- who wants to have to think negatively about someone they do not legitimately know?!
Not EYE said the blindman. Not I.
Add this to my list of goals: quit the nonsense!
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