Being smart and having much knowledge is pleasing. I am coming to the conclusion that a quest for knowledge should maybe just be a hobby. You only have one life time. When you die, you surely want to be surrounded by people that love you. There is a difference between love and respect.
Respect will not keep you warm at night. Pride does not baby you when you are down.
I believe I a may spend more time with the ones I love and more time being a human.
Just something to think on.
next week is the 2 year anniversary of my husband's death. Hence the name "widow" When I first came here. I don't think I am gonna be handling it like a lady. Dammit! I am still pissed at him!
I don't think it's gonna be as bad as last year. Believe or not, VR has helped me to escape some of the turmoil in my head. LOL!
Funny. *sighs*
As I suspected. I am better today. I love my friends and family here. Can't let a few bad apples drive my bus.
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Umm. Especially because apples are dangerous drivers. LOL!
Whatever.
Yes, whatever.
Glad you decided to stick around.
I must leave VR for a while. Or maybe I will be better tomorrow. Who knows. How is one that is an asshole magnet in real life manage to do the same shit here in make believe land. I think, screw the nice stuff, back to bitchy. It's gotta be me right? Something I do. hmmm. needs further thought.
The story behind this game is interesting. Speaking of interesting. If you read this, you should check out The Jackyl profile. He would be fascinating to know. I think. Maybe.
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You are chatting with 4 or 5 peeps on VR. And you send a message that you expect a reply to and you keep chatting with your peeps and you realize that person didn't reply and you send them a snotty message only to realize that you missed their message. LOL! This happens to me when I am in the message inbox exclusively. Totally, sucks.
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I figure they are busy or no longer important.
But have you ever made an ass out of yourself by messaging the person and saying. WTH?! Or something like that. Or they think you are ignoring them?
I have noticed that profiles here are more about what a person wishes to be than what a person really is. At least, in the beginning. As we are here longer, they seem to evolve into what we are. Tho, I have seen some that can hold their....character, for lack of a better word.
And I don't mean the "I am a vampire, werewolf, etc" character. I mean what their behavior.
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I like to think that my own profiles(yes plural)each contain an abridged introduction to my personality or things that interest me. I also read the journals as a way of participating. Some people decide to actually talk to me and that is when they really do gt to know me if they want to.
Most people do not seem to want to make the effort and that is fine too.
George Carlin said that he likes people but in small doses. To that I can relate.
I completely agree. Small doses. Thank goodness for Lurking. LOL! The problem is I mingle. And sometimes I get hold of one that I find out is nothing like their profile suggests and then they assume we are besties. LOL! And before you know it I have 10 convo's going on.
There was a philosopher that said that one should keep a journal of every notion and thought. Something like tracking your individual growth. It would be great for those times when you think to yourself "that is a great idea" and then latter you can't recall. LMAO! Which is all the time for me.
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Instead set aside time to write about your day. No matter how menial it may seem.
That would be easier, but there are many times during the day that I have a thought or creative idea that fades like a dream throughout the busy day. Canis mentioned a digital recorder. Even the voice recorder on my phone. It's just a matter of saying to someone "hold on, I gotta make a note of this brilliant idea i just had" LOL!
I know what you mean. I am always struck with moments of brilliance at inopportune times and while the computer is occupied. Usually it is while I am doing housework or in the garden. If I stop what I am doing the chain of thought breaks and I am left feeling a little off kilter.
Ok. Yeah, I am emotionally fucked up. If you don't like it.....Just tell me and I will try to change for you. *grins*
Seriously, don't you hate it when you come across someone that just pushes your damn buttons?
But then again, the world would be a boring as place if everyone sat around being smart and all put together and shit.
What would we do for amusement if that were the case. I, for one, would be bored outta my mind.
Or would I?
I am mischief. Someday I will find my chaos and we will live happily ever fucking after. LOL!
And I am not crazy. My mother had me tested. :P
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I dare someone to push my buttons.
Especially online.
The result could be terribly dull for them.
What would you do? Out of curiosity. I don't think I have any buttons. LOL!
Or maybe I just don't allow people to know what is important enough to piss me off. I just don't put myself out there like that. Most attempts to piss me off usually just make me laugh.
It depends on the situation. Usually I just ignore them.
Other times I deadpan and answer their comments and questions literally.
Prime example.
Person: How are you?
Me: My back is kind of hurting right now and I have been sick. I think I am getting my period so I am feeling crappy and forgetful.
O Damn! That's very funny. I think I will try that. LOL!
I am glad you liked it.
Son walks in on mom and dad having sex, dad just laughs until son shuts the door.
Later...
Dad walks in on son having sex with his grandmother, dad freaks and son says "Not so funny when it's YOUR mother, huh?"
It's all that keeps things magical for me. Most people are very impatient with that quality. Learning is an obsession for me. I find it quite sad that I only have a short life time to experience and learn and grow. At times I believe I can't absorb any more lessons; that I am so tired I can't take another breath. Or I feel as if I will never find a source of information that keeps me enthralled. Most people are either one way or the other (black and white with no grey)
I have become jaded, believing others will always behave predictably. I am ashamed to say I was arrogant in that fact.
And then someone or something comes along that shows me differently. Sometimes it may even be a random action from a stranger.
I live for that. That moment when magic shows itself to me.
I implore you, reader. If you come across someone like this, let down your guard and take it in. These people are few and far between. They can teach you what life is about. They can show you things you could not see on your own.
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~nods~ agreed, but there are things I lern from almost everyone. Even if it is a new twist on an old thing ;)
This day was hard. VR was not even an escape for me. I should have read my horoscope this morning.
Today a coworker asked me why I was opening so many sugar packets to put into my coffee.
I replied, "because the cafeteria doesn't offer little packets of meth amphetamine." :-/
...I am on the edge of an epiphany, a discovery about myself. If I could just let my brain grab hold of it. My intuition is screaming at me. One of those instances where I should bring intuition and logic together. And I so suck at that.
So I am watching this movie and it looks like it's gonna be another one of those that gives women a bad name. *sighs*
Thanks Hollywood. LOL!
Did you ever see the movie "The Spread"? Now that movie makes you wanna slaps some guys around.
In reality the world just doesn't seem to work this way. Or at least, in my experience. LOL!
Emotional responses originate from the primitive portion of the brain known as the Amygdala, while speech is centered in the much more recently developed Neocortex. The former can easily overpower the latter giving scientific credence to the notion of being rendered speechless. Or maybe she just doesn’t want to talk.
LOL!
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