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[mrissa]

Some days, being a mature adult with a sense of perspective and a commitment to behaving rationally really sucks.

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[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

You can kick your feet and pound your fists and wail "NO NO NO!" I won't tell anyone.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

NOT REAL GOCTOR!

Metaphorically speaking, I mean. No actual goctors were slandered in the pitching of this fit.

[eposia.livejournal.com]

I'll drink to that!

[jenfullmoon.livejournal.com]

I'll drink to that too.

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

>being a mature adult with a sense of perspective and a commitment to behaving rationally really sucks

see, this is a problem one never has in high school..

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In high school I still had a great deal more perspective than a lot of the people around me. Not only did I never feel that my parents had *sniffle* ruined my life! *SLAM*, I would have felt foolish saying so at that age. And any time I want to wail something with "always" or "never" in it, a little voice in my head says, "Fool, you are not yet 30." And then I subside sheepishly.

I don't expect this to improve next year when I am 30, because the little voice will almost certainly shift to "not yet 40."

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

And any time I want to wail something with "always" or "never" in it, a little voice in my head says, "Fool, you are not yet 30." And then I subside sheepishly.

Wow. My internal voices do not have awesome diction like that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My internal voices are not all Aretha Franklin. But.

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

>Not only did I never feel that my parents had *sniffle* ruined my life! *SLAM*,

ah! good times! *gets misty eyed with nostalgia*

hope things look better for you tomorrow, though.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

at which point you will start think "not yet 50."

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Wait, so when does it switch to "still not king?"

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

How old is Prince Charles...

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's Jason's train of thought. Wrong person.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. Sorry you're having one of those days.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I try to minimize the danger of that occurrence.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning. Sometimes I am tempted.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Huh, I thought senses of proportion and perspective made it *easier* to cope with stuff?

It's the "being mature" part that's mostly of value to *others*. :-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's in the long-term. In the long-term it's far easier to cope with stuff if you have senses of proportion and perspective. In the short-term, no guarantees.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Wow - sounds like my week :)

[sraun]

I've had days like that. It gets better, really it does!

[dragonmyst.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with that

[redbird]

It doesn't always help to know that, six months later--or maybe only six days or six hours, and sometimes not for six years--you'll be glad you behaved rationally today.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I'm frequently childish and prone to temper tantrums. Want me to smite someone for you? :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alas, but it's not that kind of thing. Thanks for the offer, though!

[aszanoni.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's a Guild of Roving Smiters?

That'd be handy. I'd pay dues to that.

My supposed minions today are feline and so not helpful, unless I want them to smite moths... The cats seem to be breeding the moths for this purpose anyway. (Images of winged-bug subscriptions for cats, eek...)

- Chica

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Very sorry for the suckitude.

[brooksmoses]

I remember one afternoon when I was a teenager, when I was really quite angry and upset about something (though I've forgotten what). It occurred to me that we had a sledgehammer and some half-broken concrete blocks and a nice spot out behind the shed where I could take the concrete blocks and smash them into very small bits. And that this was sort of the traditional type of thing to do about that sort of feeling.

It also occurred to me that once I'd smashed the concrete blocks into very small bits, I was still going to be exactly as angry and upset about the thing as I was before, and the only difference would be that I'd have a small pile of concrete bits and even more feeling of inability to do anything about the situation.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Totally.

[chang3002.livejournal.com]

This is why I drink.

Oh, and do yoga.

Oh, and write science fiction.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Writing science fiction: cause or cure? Next on Oprah.

[anonuum.livejournal.com]

This made me recall a memory of utter frustration from pre-school years:

"... and why are those stupid pantyhose not even ALIVE, so that I could PUNISH them for not cooperating with my efforts to put them on!"

While being an adult means fights with pantyhose can be avoided by simply not wearing those nasty garments, impotent frustration is unfortunately just as frustrating as it used to be and sense of perspective and a commitment to behaving rationally do nothing to make this frustration easier to deal with.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is true that the pantyhose of the world care remarkably little for how you treat them. Which is sometimes a great shame and other times extremely lucky.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Having been out dancing and drinking and listening to loud, fun music, I suddenly find myself with little desire to act rationally. Thus, there has been some sulking, some stamping, and much muttering on your behalf.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

I'll say. I hope your days swing back such that that's not so much the case.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Yea, verily.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Chocolate?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I think so.

[allochthon.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[bearsir.livejournal.com]

Word.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does.

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

No kidding.