Last time I mention it, still screwed up over the dumping but I now understand why. When dumping someone don’t say or intimate that you don’t love the dumpee. Do anything but that.
Lie, tell them you cheated on them 5,000 times and every time was better than anything you ever did with them. Tell them you’re a government agent who is being sent on a secret mission to Mars and you’ll never be seen nor heard from ever, ever again. Tell them you have the HERP and don’t want to get them sick. Tell them you’re joining the priesthood or becoming a nun.
Tell them the truth, they are far too fat, thin, ugly, handsome, rich, poor, drunk, sober, unmotivated, motivated, tall or short…whatever.
That being said, a few posts ago I said the experience was not a learning one; it obviously was.
What I’ve learned leads me to ask if I’ve ever told a dumpee that I didn’t love them. I can’t recall all the specifics to the end of every relationship, seems I may have come close with Lady Deutschland and Lady E, but if I ever said this or intimated it…I’m sorry. Really, really sorry. I loved all of you in someway.
On the subject of relationships that have ended, in these here modern times I feel that it’s way harder to just up and forget about someone because of all the ways we have of communicating. Tweets, texts, facebook statuses, e-mails, instant messages, Youtube videos, blogs, message boards, online photo galleries and so on. Back in the day, you could just cut the faces of your ex out of group photos and erase their number off the autodial on your spiffy new non-rotary phone. If they sent you a letter, you could fire up the BBQ and burn that and anything else they may have given you. It was easy!
It’s a lot harder to burn a digital footprint. I’ve yet to remove Lady X’s e-mail address from my Yahoo account so every time we’re both logged on she pops up in the stupid instant message window as a little yellow smiley face. When I see the little smiley I immediately begin crying like a big baby. That’s not true…okay maybe I cry a little, but that’s not the point. The point is that it does get me thinking about her which is not conducive to forgetting about her.
Just fixed that…erased the Youtube movies I had of her and deleted her name from my e-mail. Here’s to moving on: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xstpe_mark-morrison-return-of-the-mack_music
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Stimulate me baby
Social Service Stimulus
This part of the package is aimed at increasing the number of workers in the field of social services. Again, money will be funneled into scholarships and school programs that focus on social work, i.e. school councilors, drug and alcohol abuse councilors, child protective services workers, prisoner rehabilitation specialists and so on. Like the healthcare stimulus the ultimate goal is to get services to everyone who needs them. Feeling unusually down at school, there are always school councilors available. Experienced a period of rage aimed at your child last night, a councilor at your hospital takes walk-ins.
There are currently too many forgotten people in our country. They are the addicts, the homeless, the hungry, the hopeless, sometimes the lazy and the mentally ill and more often than not they end up costing the country a lot of money. Since they have no insurance they use emergency rooms for healthcare, they end up in jail, they live off of disability payments and welfare but most vexing it is these forgotten who become criminals. It’s the lady with untreated schizophrenia that stabs a stranger in downtown Sacramento , the hopeless and depressed teen who takes a gun to school and kills 4 classmates and so on. By reaching out and helping the lost instead of following our current course of inaction, it’s my hope that we can save money and save lives.
Up next…Education Stimulus
This part of the package is aimed at increasing the number of workers in the field of social services. Again, money will be funneled into scholarships and school programs that focus on social work, i.e. school councilors, drug and alcohol abuse councilors, child protective services workers, prisoner rehabilitation specialists and so on. Like the healthcare stimulus the ultimate goal is to get services to everyone who needs them. Feeling unusually down at school, there are always school councilors available. Experienced a period of rage aimed at your child last night, a councilor at your hospital takes walk-ins.
There are currently too many forgotten people in our country. They are the addicts, the homeless, the hungry, the hopeless, sometimes the lazy and the mentally ill and more often than not they end up costing the country a lot of money. Since they have no insurance they use emergency rooms for healthcare, they end up in jail, they live off of disability payments and welfare but most vexing it is these forgotten who become criminals. It’s the lady with untreated schizophrenia that stabs a stranger in downtown Sacramento , the hopeless and depressed teen who takes a gun to school and kills 4 classmates and so on. By reaching out and helping the lost instead of following our current course of inaction, it’s my hope that we can save money and save lives.
Up next…Education Stimulus
Thursday, November 20, 2008
OBEY
Damn it’s been a long time since I’ve written. When I fall into one of these funks/depressions I don’t get around to doing much. More often than not, I end up sitting around watching TV or just Internet surfing.
The good thing about that is that the Internet has some pretty cool stuff on it. This last Tuesday was the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre so I did a little reading up on the whole situation. It’s incredibly scary and was an incident that was very well documented, because the leader of the People’s Temple who set up the Jonestown commune recorded hours and hours of audiotape. Many of the recordings are online and NPR has a fantastic audio documentary made in 1981 posted to their Web site.
If you’re unaware of the story, the gist of it is that the leader of the People’s Temple cult flew nearly 1,000 of his followers to South America and attempted to set up a socialist/communist style commune of which he was the head, if not its one sole god. As with all things in this vein it ended badly, extremely badly. In the end over 900 people were killed or voluntarily committed suicide by drinking cyanide.
Give most people a charismatic, authoritarian leader and they’ll obey anything and everything that leader says. I find it so hard to reconcile this willingness to obey, this total lack of logic or reason but it’s been so well documented. (The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment are perfect examples.)
What bothers me the most is not knowing what I or those I know would do. Would I, could I do something like the above.
Click: http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/best-pareidolia-ever/
Can you see the child?
The good thing about that is that the Internet has some pretty cool stuff on it. This last Tuesday was the 25th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre so I did a little reading up on the whole situation. It’s incredibly scary and was an incident that was very well documented, because the leader of the People’s Temple who set up the Jonestown commune recorded hours and hours of audiotape. Many of the recordings are online and NPR has a fantastic audio documentary made in 1981 posted to their Web site.
If you’re unaware of the story, the gist of it is that the leader of the People’s Temple cult flew nearly 1,000 of his followers to South America and attempted to set up a socialist/communist style commune of which he was the head, if not its one sole god. As with all things in this vein it ended badly, extremely badly. In the end over 900 people were killed or voluntarily committed suicide by drinking cyanide.
Give most people a charismatic, authoritarian leader and they’ll obey anything and everything that leader says. I find it so hard to reconcile this willingness to obey, this total lack of logic or reason but it’s been so well documented. (The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment are perfect examples.)
What bothers me the most is not knowing what I or those I know would do. Would I, could I do something like the above.
Click: http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/best-pareidolia-ever/
Can you see the child?
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