Someone's behaviour may leave me with negative feelings, but those feelings are mine to deal with and learn about myself from.
I may wish to avoid being in contact with someone, but actively disliking someone is a way of clinging to negativity. I'd rather not do that to myself.
Also, people have their own reasons for behaving negatively. If we knew their history and how they came to be as they are, we'd likely experience a different set of emotions.
My daughter took issue with auto-correct when she texted a sarcastic, "I'm exploding with excitement!", but her friend received, "I'm exploding with excrement!"
I have to wonder what kind of people would do such a thing.
Why would someone not get medical help for a little dog who had been shot, unless perhaps they couldn't afford it? They reached out to the police, so they weren't hiding the incident and were obviously concerned enough to do that.
I wonder if the police followed up on the report, checked to see if they could afford medical care, or recommended a way that they could get care for the dog.
I wonder if the people involved were intelligent enough to realise they were doing more harm than good with they're own administrations. Clearly they weren't bright enough to see that 'the dog's legs fell off' wasn't going to work as an excuse, nor resourced enough to set up their own fund raising for veterinary care.
I suspect the accused may be dirt poor and as thick as two short planks, neither of which are crimes. I suspect the accused lacked support when they needed it the most and as such resorted to their own woefully inadequate coping strategies.
A sensational news report such as this is designed to get an emotional reaction out of people who enjoy a bit of drama. It disturbs me that the dog's misfortune is being used for these purposes.
I'd like to think that any legal action is less motivated by seeking to punish people of lesser intelligence and means, than by getting a ban on them keeping animals they can't look after in an emergency. It seems that decision needs to made for them if they are incapable of making it for themselves.
If I saw a dog who was shot and without medical care, I would talk to the people involved. I would attempt to support those people and negotiate the quickest way to get help.
Any talk of beating people up, shooting them, or doing the same to them is as equally intellectually under-resourced as the coping strategies of the accused.
Not really, as we have 'feeling rules' in society.
We're largely obliged to be sad at funerals, happy at parties and say, "It was fine thankyou" in answer to your question, unless we have the kind of relationship where we can speak the truth.
Your first statement being a option implies the relationship is not that intimate.
I can hear way more of that one, but plainly there is more going on than I can pick up.
There's a young man who I sometimes see in Cardiff playing saucepans, storage boxes and water containers. I'm utterly transfixed when I see him, but I think I listen with my feet and eyes as much as my ears. It's possible I may stand a bit too close staring.
I'm definitely not anaemic, but I get most of my B12 from almond milk. To get 3 microgrammes (RDA) I need to drink 800ml a day which I do often, but not always.
I bought some yeast free vitamin B complex, but I found the dose too high - they gave me indigestion and turned my pee lime green.
Excess of B vitamins get excreted fairly quickly. It seems it's better to have a small daily dose, or even a tiny dose three times a day, than a large dose once a week, or once a month. I might try grating a bit of a tablet into my almond milk smoothie every day.
Well, people have different moral values. I'm not sure it's fair to say that people have no moral values.
People have different attachment styles, lifestyles, different levels of intelligence, communication skills, etc.
Some people may be scurrilous 'freeloaders', but I suspect many don't have that much self-awareness.
I think the moral of the story is to be cognisant of one's own boundaries and needs and to communicate accurately. It's a disappointment when a potential friendship, or relationship match doesn't work out, but that's a part of life, eh?
Some people have busy lives and are dependent upon others for their schedule.
My daughter doesn't always know when she, or her partner are working at the weekends. It depends upon her boss, what work comes up, people calling in sick, etc. They both work like dogs.
I sometimes work at weekends.
My grandchildren are my priority. Being a grandmother is like being a parent who doesn't live in the home. A week is a long time in a child's life and they rely on the routine of me seeing them at the weekend for security.
It's 5.30am Saturday morning and I still don't know how I'm going to fit everything in this weekend.
As an adult, I understand that I have to suck it up if other adults are too run off their feet to spend time with me, or make arrangements in advance. More vulnerable people like kids, grandkids, elderly parents take priority. Work takes priority because that's about survival, or providing for others.
I'm not in a position to have a sense of entitlement over other people's schedules, or them over mine.
If we get together, fabulous. If not, then there'll be other times.
jac_the_gripper Forum Posts (5,363)
RE: My Master Mind
Something tells me your claims are a little loftier than a 1970's board game......at least in your master mind.