Just Say No
Once again the darkness has descended on the house.
Have you ever had one of those people in your life that looked at life from the "half empty" point of view? The darkness in my life looks at things from a slightly different viewpoint, the glass is almost empty for her and, more, what's left in the glass is evil. The reason it's evil for her is because she doesn't know what's in the glass and anything unknown must be wrong. There are two insidious reasons why she thinks that way.
Someone told her to think like that. She's one of those people that believes everything her people tell her, the kind of people that send those "if you don't pass this on" emails. I said her people because there is a clear division between the "informed" and the "uninformed".
She believes she has the final answer for everything. There is only one answer to anything in her life, when the equation comes up with a different kind of answer there must be something wrong with it and therefore it must be evil.
It's her prerogative to think that way, whatever floats your boat, but I tend to be a half full kind of guy. I grew up in a world of negativity and I had to teach myself to look for positives to keep from being beaten down by the darkness. I talked to a friend yesterday and he said to him it's a half a glass of water... not full... not empty. I like that, seeing things as they are. I think there is no judgment in reality, it is, like it or not. Personally, I'm not a big fan of reality so I stick to my illusion of the half-full glass. I know that's no better than her, it's just another kind of reckoning but it helps me get through what would otherwise be a pretty crappy life. She is my darkness because she threatens my fragile hold on unreality but I'm her darkness for the same reason. Still, she keeps coming back and I continually ask myself why. A siren call perhaps? The lure of the positive? Deep down I think she craves my point of view even though she'll never let go of hers.
They say you're either part of the problem or part of the solution. I know I'm part of the problem, escapism is not an answer but I also think I'm part of the answer. I believe reality runs on balance and as long as there are people like her there must be people like me to keep it from falling apart.
Have you ever had one of those people in your life that looked at life from the "half empty" point of view? The darkness in my life looks at things from a slightly different viewpoint, the glass is almost empty for her and, more, what's left in the glass is evil. The reason it's evil for her is because she doesn't know what's in the glass and anything unknown must be wrong. There are two insidious reasons why she thinks that way.
Someone told her to think like that. She's one of those people that believes everything her people tell her, the kind of people that send those "if you don't pass this on" emails. I said her people because there is a clear division between the "informed" and the "uninformed".
She believes she has the final answer for everything. There is only one answer to anything in her life, when the equation comes up with a different kind of answer there must be something wrong with it and therefore it must be evil.
It's her prerogative to think that way, whatever floats your boat, but I tend to be a half full kind of guy. I grew up in a world of negativity and I had to teach myself to look for positives to keep from being beaten down by the darkness. I talked to a friend yesterday and he said to him it's a half a glass of water... not full... not empty. I like that, seeing things as they are. I think there is no judgment in reality, it is, like it or not. Personally, I'm not a big fan of reality so I stick to my illusion of the half-full glass. I know that's no better than her, it's just another kind of reckoning but it helps me get through what would otherwise be a pretty crappy life. She is my darkness because she threatens my fragile hold on unreality but I'm her darkness for the same reason. Still, she keeps coming back and I continually ask myself why. A siren call perhaps? The lure of the positive? Deep down I think she craves my point of view even though she'll never let go of hers.
They say you're either part of the problem or part of the solution. I know I'm part of the problem, escapism is not an answer but I also think I'm part of the answer. I believe reality runs on balance and as long as there are people like her there must be people like me to keep it from falling apart.
Posted by RevrendZ - 9/03/2005 06:32:00 AM
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1 Comments:
I love it!
"The darkness has decended...." I can just see her evil, ragged, leathery, black wings spread as she alights in front of the house, and then they fold away and disappear as she transforms, taking on her human shape. {heh heh}
Nasty business; I don't envy that situation.
You are right about the balance thing. Don't forget yin and yang: two opposing, yet interdependent forces. It's all around us.
Keep doing what you're doing; I think it's working out okay.
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