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- From: ST201026@brownvm.brown.edu (nathan marsh)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: When Things Go Bump (was Re: a cure for angst?)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:58:47 EST
- Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island USA
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- References: <1992Nov17.115954.26210@acme.gen.nz> <1992Nov17.142509.2374@gacvx2.gac.edu> <1992Nov17.212531.11076@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.212531.11076@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
- rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) said:
- >
- >ObAngst: i had a lunch date today, and i was constantly feeling as though
- >the guy believed i was a complete loon and/or impostor. i can't think of
- >why. does anyone else have these feelings of being a fake, or that everyone's
- >going to somehow 'find out' that you have no business doing what you're
- >doing, or being who you are?
-
- Fear that someone "knows", I think, usually comes from inside and is projected
- onto other people. That is, you feel fake and out of controll, and fear that
- it must be obvious to other people.
-
- So what? If they can recognize the signs, they've probably felt the same
- way themselves at some point.
-
- I remember hearing some comedian talking about how adults really have no
- idea what's going on, even when we dress in suits and carry breifcases. He
- described two guys talking, and one asks "Say, Bob, do you have any idea
- what we're doing?" and the other one says, "We'll, we've got these
- breifcases and I bet there's something important inside. And I bought new
- shoes yesterday..."
-
- When you're a little kid, (and not in an abusive and disfunctional family),
- you look at your parent(s) and think, "wow, they know everything, they have
- the solutions to *any* problem." Part of growing up is realizing that we're
- all just making it up as we go along.
-
- Part of the reason why we crave relationships is because we can fool
- ourselves into thinking our SO has a clue, is in control, etc, much like
- we viewed our parents when we were little kids.
-
- Except that I've always been the one with the clue, the one with answers.
-
- So when Things Go Bump In The Night, who's gonna comfort me and tell me it's
- all right, huh?
-
- -There's nothing real, just a coat of fuzz...
- --
- -nathan marsh
- -st201026@brownvm.brown.edu
-