I used to look like that…
I like this one a lot.
I would have to agree.I don’t think that proverb is suggesting one should be nice but instead attack and defeat such a person because they’re unlikely to be able to handle two battles simultaneously.
Musashi believed in winning even to the point of bashing your enemy’s head in with a rock if you have to. Others thought this attitude was dishonourable and rather beastly but Musashi believed all is fair in war.
The motto at military academy was “ character before career” but the commandant told me “ just because you are a character, doesn’t mean you have character”.Also a person with a well-developed character does not take their problems out and about with them. It is uncouth as it makes others feel awkward.
You might be in the wrong forum then…🤔Also a person with a well-developed character does not take their problems out and about with them. It is uncouth as it makes others feel awkward.
I don’t know why people seek sympathy from those who are essentially strangers.You might be in the wrong forum then…🤔
Or sympathy at all.I don’t know why people seek sympathy from those who are essentially strangers.
Some children never grow up and feel the need for a ‘there, there’ when they metaphorically skin their knee.Or sympathy at all.
I’ve sincerely never noticed you doing this, Bill. Does it work?Decades of keeping my pain to myself didn't help. Now I am receiving something called "Prolonged Exposure." I'm forced to restate my trauma-causing event over and over again in therapy, and to confront the things I have avoided, including not keeping my troubles to myself. I don't seek sympathy, but some understanding would be nice. I'll be happy to move along if it bothers anyone. That's what I've been doing for decades anyway.
I often bail on social activity for months or years at a time, usually after working myself into a state and feeling as if I've worn out my welcome. That includes MT. However, my withdrawal from society has gotten to the point where I've shut out all my remaining family and most friends. It's just me and my wife and my gardening and karate. It's become an issue, so I finally had to get help.I’ve sincerely never noticed you doing this, Bill. Does it work?
I don’t care for people in general, so it’s just my family, MA, and hobbies mostly. I’m glad that therapy is helping you.I often bail on social activity for months or years at a time, usually after working myself into a state and feeling as if I've worn out my welcome. That includes MT. However, my withdrawal from society has gotten to the point where I've shut out all my remaining family and most friends. It's just me and my wife and my gardening and karate. It's become an issue, so I finally had to get help.
Oh I see. I have a low threshold for those referred to as ‘emotional vampires’, but other than you admitting that you’re very old and your looks and teeth have all gone I’ve never thought of you in anything like those terms.I often bail on social activity for months or years at a time, usually after working myself into a state and feeling as if I've worn out my welcome.
I always think I’m a bit of a misanthrope, but on meeting ’people’ I quite like them (except flat earthers😡)I don’t care for people in general, so it’s just my family, MA, and hobbies mostly. I’m glad that therapy is helping you.
Who likes flat earthers anyway? 😁I always think I’m a bit of a misanthrope, but on meeting ’people’ I quite like them (except flat earthers😡)