Insight #2
They say that my Archangel counterpart speaks to babies while still in the womb. There he imparts the knowledge that the baby will, in due time, need. Well, you're all in a womb of delusion, and it's about time that I slapped you upside the head with some truth. This is profound insight #2. I have declared it to be so, and so it shall be.
EVERYBODY gets sad, EVERYBODY gets angry... deal with it.
We know that everybody lies. We know that everybody breathes air. We even know that Everybody Poops (which is an awesome book by the way). But somewhere along the line, we forgot that everybody has anger; everyone succumbs to sadness. And not only does everyone HAVE these two, but we in fact need them to survive. I write this insight, mostly in response to a critique of my blogger, by a friend who will remain nameless. Not that I really need to do that, though, since I suspect he MIGHT be the only person who reads this thing. Anywho, this person, hereby called X, was looking at my blogger over my shoulder one night, and remarked "man, anyone who read some of these entries would think that you get pretty angry or were really depressed." Oh gee, really? I never thought that at all! The unfortunate - but absolutely true - fact of life is that these two emotions exists for a reason. Anger is an outlet. Sadness is an outlet. It's simple physics (or something like that): a limited vessel, or space, can only stand the introduction of so much of a given material. After the time that it reaches its
storage limit, it's gotta start to release some of the material, or it will break/explode. It's like when your email account has enough messages in it and that little bar is in the red: you need to get rid of some emails, or your account will explode. Ok, maybe not explode, but they'll take that sucker away from you (and how will little Billy ever survive without stupidinsidejoke@yahoo.com?) . It doesn't matter how you do it; you can delete them, send them somewhere, save them somewhere. But the fact of the matter is that they can't be kept WHERE THEY ARE anymore. In the case of a person, any kind of emotion get stored up over a matter of time. Only two are really hard for some people to release: sadness and anger. Happiness is an easy one; people spend happiness like no one's business. But sadness? Anger? A bit harder to deal with. First offender: SADNESS. The problem with this one is that it has become socially unacceptable among certain types of people to show sadness. It is viewed as a sign of weakness or, more realistically, a sign that in fact the given person is NOT the god of the universe, in total control of every aspect of their life. Why else do you think that very macho guys (or militant lesbians) have a really hard time crying? I don't understand what the problem is. I cry when I need to, and I'm better for it. To all those people that can't or, even worse, WON'T let it out, I think it's all a matter of time. They're just deluding themselves temporarily, which will end up causing them a whole NEW world of pain when the floodgates finally burst. So if you're out there, and you fall into that category, do yourself a favor: watch someone's grandparent die from a painful terminal illness, or squash a kitten, or do something so horrible that the consequences leave you with nothing left to do but cry like a little prepubescent girl (unless you already ARE one of those, in which case just cry like yourself). NEXT! Anger. The big problem with this one is that anger IS expressed already in very poor ways, and those are the ones that get all the press. Everytime some schizo guy whacks his three daughters, or rapes a donkey, or bombs a bus station... the media JUMPS ALL OVER IT. And so everyone has this bad taste in their mouths about anger. They look at these horrible oil spots on society's driveways, and they say to themselves "Crikey, I don't ever wanna be as angry as those blokes!" (because apparently everyone's Australian). Anger is viewed as something taboo, and in the cases of, uh, THE UNABOMBER it's not too good. But in small doses it is necessary. Otherwise it builds up and builds up, and then you become one of those schizo dudes who develope some craziness and beat a schoolgirl to death with a sack full of dead puppies. So next time you see those guys on the news, don't say "crikey": instead let it serve as a reminder to let off some steam once in a while. In fact, when you see murderers and rapists, fly off the handle and the next thing that pisses you off, even a little. Hell, fly competely off the handle at your TV screen; when we get good and mad at the evil people in this world, it's called a RIGHTEOUS anger. So just let loose, buddies and buddettes. Trust me, it'll help in the long run. So there's my insight. But hey, to address my friend who made the stupid comment: just because I'm chipper and happy and upbeat and psychotic most of the time, that doesn't mean that I forfeit MY RIGHT to be down or angry sometime. I'm still human. Just because I wasn't happy for a LITTLE bit, don't make a big deal out of it. If you do, it shows an underlying insecurity that, in some small way, you are basing your happiness in how chipper OTHER people are. Oh, and in closing, I still suggest you take a read of those "Mune Lite" lyrics... if you banish feelings, then maybe you won't HAVE to get sad or angry. Of course you won't be happy either, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It'd just give you more to miss when you're feeling sad and lonely.
Apathy: I'm not just the spokesman, I'm a practicing member.
EVERYBODY gets sad, EVERYBODY gets angry... deal with it.
We know that everybody lies. We know that everybody breathes air. We even know that Everybody Poops (which is an awesome book by the way). But somewhere along the line, we forgot that everybody has anger; everyone succumbs to sadness. And not only does everyone HAVE these two, but we in fact need them to survive. I write this insight, mostly in response to a critique of my blogger, by a friend who will remain nameless. Not that I really need to do that, though, since I suspect he MIGHT be the only person who reads this thing. Anywho, this person, hereby called X, was looking at my blogger over my shoulder one night, and remarked "man, anyone who read some of these entries would think that you get pretty angry or were really depressed." Oh gee, really? I never thought that at all! The unfortunate - but absolutely true - fact of life is that these two emotions exists for a reason. Anger is an outlet. Sadness is an outlet. It's simple physics (or something like that): a limited vessel, or space, can only stand the introduction of so much of a given material. After the time that it reaches its
storage limit, it's gotta start to release some of the material, or it will break/explode. It's like when your email account has enough messages in it and that little bar is in the red: you need to get rid of some emails, or your account will explode. Ok, maybe not explode, but they'll take that sucker away from you (and how will little Billy ever survive without stupidinsidejoke@yahoo.com?) . It doesn't matter how you do it; you can delete them, send them somewhere, save them somewhere. But the fact of the matter is that they can't be kept WHERE THEY ARE anymore. In the case of a person, any kind of emotion get stored up over a matter of time. Only two are really hard for some people to release: sadness and anger. Happiness is an easy one; people spend happiness like no one's business. But sadness? Anger? A bit harder to deal with. First offender: SADNESS. The problem with this one is that it has become socially unacceptable among certain types of people to show sadness. It is viewed as a sign of weakness or, more realistically, a sign that in fact the given person is NOT the god of the universe, in total control of every aspect of their life. Why else do you think that very macho guys (or militant lesbians) have a really hard time crying? I don't understand what the problem is. I cry when I need to, and I'm better for it. To all those people that can't or, even worse, WON'T let it out, I think it's all a matter of time. They're just deluding themselves temporarily, which will end up causing them a whole NEW world of pain when the floodgates finally burst. So if you're out there, and you fall into that category, do yourself a favor: watch someone's grandparent die from a painful terminal illness, or squash a kitten, or do something so horrible that the consequences leave you with nothing left to do but cry like a little prepubescent girl (unless you already ARE one of those, in which case just cry like yourself). NEXT! Anger. The big problem with this one is that anger IS expressed already in very poor ways, and those are the ones that get all the press. Everytime some schizo guy whacks his three daughters, or rapes a donkey, or bombs a bus station... the media JUMPS ALL OVER IT. And so everyone has this bad taste in their mouths about anger. They look at these horrible oil spots on society's driveways, and they say to themselves "Crikey, I don't ever wanna be as angry as those blokes!" (because apparently everyone's Australian). Anger is viewed as something taboo, and in the cases of, uh, THE UNABOMBER it's not too good. But in small doses it is necessary. Otherwise it builds up and builds up, and then you become one of those schizo dudes who develope some craziness and beat a schoolgirl to death with a sack full of dead puppies. So next time you see those guys on the news, don't say "crikey": instead let it serve as a reminder to let off some steam once in a while. In fact, when you see murderers and rapists, fly off the handle and the next thing that pisses you off, even a little. Hell, fly competely off the handle at your TV screen; when we get good and mad at the evil people in this world, it's called a RIGHTEOUS anger. So just let loose, buddies and buddettes. Trust me, it'll help in the long run. So there's my insight. But hey, to address my friend who made the stupid comment: just because I'm chipper and happy and upbeat and psychotic most of the time, that doesn't mean that I forfeit MY RIGHT to be down or angry sometime. I'm still human. Just because I wasn't happy for a LITTLE bit, don't make a big deal out of it. If you do, it shows an underlying insecurity that, in some small way, you are basing your happiness in how chipper OTHER people are. Oh, and in closing, I still suggest you take a read of those "Mune Lite" lyrics... if you banish feelings, then maybe you won't HAVE to get sad or angry. Of course you won't be happy either, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It'd just give you more to miss when you're feeling sad and lonely.
Apathy: I'm not just the spokesman, I'm a practicing member.
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