A big part of the solution to this is doing something for a living or volunteering for something that matters to other humans.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder how cube workers, number crunchers, and paper-shufflers justify their existence.
Everyone is unique. Maybey you don't feel unique, but I wonder if you have ever tested yourself or been tested to your limits and abilities. I have seen a lot of humans, in a lot of situations, and every one of them is different. I've seen them dying, burned, scared, drug-seeking, stroking out, frightened, in pain, recovering, unconcious, comatose, full of tubes, getting tubes taken out. Children, elderly, felons, everything in between and everything else. I have seen all of these in groups, and all drug seekers are different, all cardiacs are different, all felons are different, all kids are different. Even in the experience of getting an IV, which is one of the most standardized procedures possible to do, every single patient is different.
Honestly, unless you have some vast human exposure you haven't mentioned, your emotions far outstrip your wisdom in regards to the human condition.
In regards to whiners, they are far more often trying to communicate the validity and immediacy of their experience, as opposed to their literal experience. Have you ever asked them, or do you just walk away seeething a the verbal expression? "Hey, do you mean the actual event, or the way it felt to you? How is your experience different from similar events experienced by others?"
I feel like you get angry at people's behavior, without having the patience or humility to ask them more about it and try to learn where they are coming from. I don't think you are stupid, just impatient with people, and inexperienced.
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Date: 2006-10-27 05:14 am (UTC)Honestly, sometimes I wonder how cube workers, number crunchers, and paper-shufflers justify their existence.
Everyone is unique. Maybey you don't feel unique, but I wonder if you have ever tested yourself or been tested to your limits and abilities. I have seen a lot of humans, in a lot of situations, and every one of them is different. I've seen them dying, burned, scared, drug-seeking, stroking out, frightened, in pain, recovering, unconcious, comatose, full of tubes, getting tubes taken out. Children, elderly, felons, everything in between and everything else. I have seen all of these in groups, and all drug seekers are different, all cardiacs are different, all felons are different, all kids are different. Even in the experience of getting an IV, which is one of the most standardized procedures possible to do, every single patient is different.
Honestly, unless you have some vast human exposure you haven't mentioned, your emotions far outstrip your wisdom in regards to the human condition.
In regards to whiners, they are far more often trying to communicate the validity and immediacy of their experience, as opposed to their literal experience. Have you ever asked them, or do you just walk away seeething a the verbal expression? "Hey, do you mean the actual event, or the way it felt to you? How is your experience different from similar events experienced by others?"
I feel like you get angry at people's behavior, without having the patience or humility to ask them more about it and try to learn where they are coming from. I don't think you are stupid, just impatient with people, and inexperienced.