Posted by bob on March 4, 2000, at 21:57:24
In reply to Re: My last post, probably--caution, may upset people, posted by Elizabeth on March 3, 2000, at 11:43:36
My two cents, V., for what two cents is worth nowadays it to forget the Neil Diamond songs ("I am, I said"? Really? To no one? Hey, we may be virtual at YOUR end of the pipe, Mr. Frog-King ;^) and stick with the Neil Peart songs. Worked once for me. Put on the CD, hit the Repeat button, and listened to "The Spirit of Radio" about 20-30 times in a row.
If not for that song, a few months back I might have wound up as the NRA's next poster child ... if I could have found a gun shop conveniently located where I worked on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at the time.
Feel angry? Feel like venting? Fine! Let it out here rather than taking it out on yourself. Don't let their incompetence victimize you.
The reason I disappeard for the last week or so is that someone else's incompetence sent me free-falling at terminal velocity right to Hell ... but gods-be-thanked my therapist is like the best bungee cord any canyon diver could want. The main thing she did for me was to stop me from beating myself for the stupidity and shittiness of others. In spite of how the Powers That Be have failed me, **I** have put myself in a better place than I was three months ago, and nothing they do or fail to do can take that from me. Nothing.
So, kiddo, it's time to make your own place of peace. I hope Babble has a lifeline to it.
bob
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