{"id":82,"date":"2008-01-28T02:22:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-01-28T02:22:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:22:59","slug":"daymares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2008\/01\/28\/daymares\/","title":{"rendered":"daymares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy and I were trying to figure out tonight where all the dramatic people come from. I mean, I get it.. people get upset about shit and can&#8217;t deal with it constructively and at some point they overflow and get all drama and whatnot. I&#8217;ve been a longstanding fan of stopping arguments when I start to get upset for such reasons. Unfortunately more recently I have been in a full blown situation where I was central to an argument. On one hand that&#8217;s a good thing, on another, I&#8217;m stuck only with arguments from a couple relationships ago with which to ponder my reasonableness.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave the story out of it, for the innocents or whatever they&#8217;re called. But tonight was dramatic. Someone I can&#8217;t sleep because of it, even a few beers later. Ry is coming over and we&#8217;re going to go get some breakfast, maybe I&#8217;ll just stay up and leave work when I get tired or something so I can still get some shit done without mentally caving in.<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder why we put up with so much drama. It seems like most people survive under the assumption that it&#8217;s the other persons fault. &#8220;I&#8217;m totally normal, they&#8217;re fucked up&#8221; sort of speak.<\/p>\n<p>I really need a stash of a case of vitamin water in here, waking up in the middle of the night needing something to drink with only random beer bottles I&#8217;ve brought home from weird parties doesn&#8217;t get me anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>When you think about it, the arguments make no sense. You&#8217;re not going to convince someone to re-evaluate their life by calling them names. It&#8217;s all emotion driven, I guess the super shitty thing is when that emotion is driven by somehow feeling like you&#8217;re better than them.<\/p>\n<p>I keep having this bizarre argument with a friend about something similar. Neither of us have anything riding on it, so we always just drop the conversation. She&#8217;s convinced that I&#8217;m somehow tricking everyone into thinking I&#8217;m a nice guy, as most people I know think I&#8217;m a nice guy, but since none of them really know me, they don&#8217;t really that I&#8217;m not a nice guy. I&#8217;m pretty convinced that I&#8217;m a nice guy, but I&#8217;m waaay too sensitive and emotionally vulnerable. I figure that doesn&#8217;t make a ton of sense to the uninitiated on its own though. In retrospect, that sort of makes sense to me though. Looking back at the times when I&#8217;ve been unable to deal with situations, I feel like there&#8217;s a common thread of self-doubt. That&#8217;s a great word for right now, but I&#8217;m thinking specifically about an emotional thread, which brings on some vulnerability and then without ender telling me which way the enemy&#8217;s gate is I get all fucked up and have to take a break.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fuck ton of mishap in the world, or drama if you will, that comes from people and their self-doubt, their need to build up themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s in these intricate and &#8220;passive aggressive&#8221; maneuvers, other times they&#8217;re just telling you a bad person and who are you to think that they are the bad person, you, you, bad person.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stop thinking about this shit. Hopefully it&#8217;s worth it, because it keeps me up at night. I try thinking about something less stressful and consuming but at some point even the thought of a nice day comes back to how people&#8217;s bullshit makes even a nice day not so nice. Hopefully at some point these thoughts will form into a plan for world peace, or at least peace amongst some form of cute wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably be moving into the woods when I turn thirty, as the older I get the more complicated life seems to.<\/p>\n<p>Ry&#8217;s here though, off for food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy and I were trying to figure out tonight where all the dramatic people come from. I mean, I get it.. people get upset about shit and can&#8217;t deal with it constructively and at some point they overflow and get all drama and whatnot. 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