1401b wrote:
-disclaimer: all instances of the word "you" is intended as purely fictional, and NOT intended to offend any persons, living, dead or reading this post, and is purely coincidental.
Or something.
I used to buy into the concepts, slander, and sophistry that haterz would regurgitate, apparently at random.
I really tested whether I was wrong or weird or awful. And I still do as a first Pavlovian response.
But there’s a fundamental logical flaw in automatically assuming everyone else is always right.
...If I can remember.
- ‘Boy somebody got excited.’ ... (wow, shoot down my balloon)
- ‘Why can’t you?’ ... (how should I know? why don’t you tell me about gravity, and if I can punch lame holes in your explanation does it mean you’ll suddenly float away?)
- ‘Relax.’ ... (gah, shut up)
- ‘You’re just making excuses.’ ... (you asked me for an answer, and I’m respecting you enough to dedicate valuable mental run-time to answer you, so try not to call me a liar too. If it was just that I didn’t want to do it, I would have said, “Because, I don’t want to do it.”)
- ‘Nobody else has a problem with it.’ ... (oh, I’m the only person on the planet that does, so I’m either the most bizarre freak ever, or a liar, huh?)
- ‘You make everything complicated.’ ... (*blink blink* I make the world complicated? The car you drive every day has about 30,000 parts that I didn’t make, but you think I’m the one causing it?)
- ‘You’re wrong.’ ... (“Well Mr. 14.01b, I don’t know what the right answer is, and have no guesses on even a wrong answer, but it can’t even possibly be what you said.”)
- ‘I’ve never had a problem.’ ... (or maybe you have, and are just too dumb to know it.)
- ‘You think too much.’ ... (or conversely…)
- ‘Boy you sure over-analyzed that.’ ... (but, you didn’t notice that I did that in approx. 2.61 seconds, so you’re implying I’m obsessive?)
- ‘You’re so negative.’ ... (or maybe I’m more optimistic than you can possibly understand because I already see solutions to everything up to this (“negative”) next point, which by the way, is about a mile farther down the road than the end of your nose.
- ‘You’re looking for problems!’ ... (duh, it’s called preparation, you might wanna go talk to a boy scout.)
- ‘You could just (insert lame idea here) ... (over the course of my life I’ve spent approx. 2 million times more on this than your 15 seconds of contemplation, so thanks for imagining neither I nor anyone else on the planet has thought of that already, AND for getting mad at me for not instantly re-devoting all my current & future life-resources pursuing your thoughtless platitude.
These are excellent examples!
Here are some more:
You aren't alone; others are (doing, being, experiencing) that too. (Why should I care, and how does that impact me?
)
Don't borrow trouble. (This in response to me trying to anticipate and prepare for all eventualities)
How do you think
she or
he felt? (I don't know. Try telling me how
you know!)
Couldn't you see that they were just kidding? (Uh...NO!)
You are just too thin skinned! (Show me how to trade in for a thicker one then.)
Love your list, the one I hate is "What's Wrong" --- nothing is f*****g wrong, I am neither happy or sad, I am focused and your implication that there is something wrong, is currently the only going wrong in my life.