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Feb. 16th, 2014 09:32 pm1. This bit of News surprised me today :
Bitter single man buys every other movie ticket on Valentine’s Day so couples can’t sit together
Sometimes love is never having to say you’re sorry! A spurned man managed to get the tickets to ‘Beijing Love Story’ at a Shanghai movie theater— then unapologetically bragged online about his labor of love lost, ‘Want to see a movie on Valentine's Day? Sorry, you'll have to sit separately.’
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/single-man-buys-movie-ticket-thwarts-couples-valentine-day-article-1.1615378#ixzz2tXW5cOTn
So...you feel so disconnected and so miserable - you want to make others feel the same way? And are willing to do literally anything to make it happen? While this may be tempting - after all, misery loves company. You are making a lot of assumptions. Assuming that people who are couples...aren't disconnected in any way or want to sit together, or won't sit in the empty seats. In addition, if I've learned anything in life lashing out at others in fits of rage, solves nothing. It didn't for this man. He backed down and claimed it was just a joke. All it does is bring the rage back around again. You can't make yourself feel better by hurting someone else, no matter how tempting it is.
2. I read and listened to the podcast of last week's sermon - at my church - which I'd missed, just now. And made me rethink my attitudes towards language. I have no facility for language. Which I learned the hard way - when I sweated bullets attempting to learn to speak French. ( Read more... )
Bitter single man buys every other movie ticket on Valentine’s Day so couples can’t sit together
Sometimes love is never having to say you’re sorry! A spurned man managed to get the tickets to ‘Beijing Love Story’ at a Shanghai movie theater— then unapologetically bragged online about his labor of love lost, ‘Want to see a movie on Valentine's Day? Sorry, you'll have to sit separately.’
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/single-man-buys-movie-ticket-thwarts-couples-valentine-day-article-1.1615378#ixzz2tXW5cOTn
So...you feel so disconnected and so miserable - you want to make others feel the same way? And are willing to do literally anything to make it happen? While this may be tempting - after all, misery loves company. You are making a lot of assumptions. Assuming that people who are couples...aren't disconnected in any way or want to sit together, or won't sit in the empty seats. In addition, if I've learned anything in life lashing out at others in fits of rage, solves nothing. It didn't for this man. He backed down and claimed it was just a joke. All it does is bring the rage back around again. You can't make yourself feel better by hurting someone else, no matter how tempting it is.
2. I read and listened to the podcast of last week's sermon - at my church - which I'd missed, just now. And made me rethink my attitudes towards language. I have no facility for language. Which I learned the hard way - when I sweated bullets attempting to learn to speak French. ( Read more... )