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Mar. 7th, 2012 09:21 pmSo I bought an early birthday gift for myself. Two actually. Went to Best Buy and got
the first season of Game of Thrones for 29.99 (list price is 49.99) and the sixth season of Doctor Who for 38.99 (which is a deal since they tried to charge me $59.99 for it. And I politely told them that the package said $38.99. Which worked. Yay me. Since I wouldn't have bought it for $59.99. I came thisclose to buying the Wire S3 for 29.99 instead. But decided I wanted something lighter and more fun.) So sue me, my favorite season of Doctor Who is Season 6. I think I'm in the minority on this one.
Life is hard, isn't it? And not fair. And it hurts. And people...sigh...I love people but they drive me crazy. I have a job in which I deal with difficult people. They scream at me. Call me bad names. And often will be short or annoying. I've learned over time not to take it personally. It's not. But it is hard. Hard not to be paranoid when someone seems cold to you. You have to remind yourself they are just socially awkward. Or have shit they are dealing with. I've learned over time to look behind the lines. Between the words. To question everything. And take nothing at face value. People are complicated. And we are all so different. So unique. We can't generalize and yet we all do, and it is the biggest flaw in our thinking and how we get in trouble. How we hurt ourselves and others.
Two things happened this week that brought this home. One was a discussion with my boss about my tremor. My boss is African-American. I told him about my tremor and he said he wished he'd known about this. He said and this is key I think, that often people generalize about things out of ignorance and ignorance is the lack of information. We jump to conclusions.
Human beings struggle with their bodies. And our bodies are different. Some of us are more tightly wired than others. Some more physical. Some more cereberal. Some struggle with flucuations in body chemistry such as severe depression. Online there is so little we know about each other. We don't know why our friends rage. Why they get upset.
For example - ( cut for length and it is personal )
the first season of Game of Thrones for 29.99 (list price is 49.99) and the sixth season of Doctor Who for 38.99 (which is a deal since they tried to charge me $59.99 for it. And I politely told them that the package said $38.99. Which worked. Yay me. Since I wouldn't have bought it for $59.99. I came thisclose to buying the Wire S3 for 29.99 instead. But decided I wanted something lighter and more fun.) So sue me, my favorite season of Doctor Who is Season 6. I think I'm in the minority on this one.
Life is hard, isn't it? And not fair. And it hurts. And people...sigh...I love people but they drive me crazy. I have a job in which I deal with difficult people. They scream at me. Call me bad names. And often will be short or annoying. I've learned over time not to take it personally. It's not. But it is hard. Hard not to be paranoid when someone seems cold to you. You have to remind yourself they are just socially awkward. Or have shit they are dealing with. I've learned over time to look behind the lines. Between the words. To question everything. And take nothing at face value. People are complicated. And we are all so different. So unique. We can't generalize and yet we all do, and it is the biggest flaw in our thinking and how we get in trouble. How we hurt ourselves and others.
Two things happened this week that brought this home. One was a discussion with my boss about my tremor. My boss is African-American. I told him about my tremor and he said he wished he'd known about this. He said and this is key I think, that often people generalize about things out of ignorance and ignorance is the lack of information. We jump to conclusions.
Human beings struggle with their bodies. And our bodies are different. Some of us are more tightly wired than others. Some more physical. Some more cereberal. Some struggle with flucuations in body chemistry such as severe depression. Online there is so little we know about each other. We don't know why our friends rage. Why they get upset.
For example - ( cut for length and it is personal )