The Nita

I'm going to learn to not allow myself to get wound up and irritated by the actions of others.

*snort* Yah - watch me get my Buddha groove on....

I think what irks me more is watching people fail to consider the likeliest results of their actions, and then get shocked when they happen.

*breathe*

I have to remember - the monkeys outside the circle, while important to the other monkeys in their circle, aren't my job. Expending energy I don't have to slam my head into the wall when they do something I perceive as dumb benefits no one.

*release*

You'd think after nearly 23 years of actively learning to control my temper and my knee jerk responses to the universe and the people that inhabit it, I might be further down this path.

*wry laughter*

You might think so. I couldn't possibly comment.

I feel little or no impulse any more to fit into the pre-defined-by-not-me image that supposedly society has.

I've been informed (by various sources) that I should be respectable, not embarass myself in public, and generally work on getting along with everyone.

I am (mostly) respectful, but by gods, I'll sing in the grocery store if that's what I feel like, and generally make a fool of myself if it entertains me and inconveniences no one greatly.

"Not embarass myself in public" - dude, you are so too late.

"work on getting along with everyone" - uh. No. I don't have the time or energy to waste on people I have to work to get along with. I'm much happier with my cane & shouting "GET OFF MY LAWN" and then going playing parcheesi with da goils and my boytoys.