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- From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: frustration and rage
- Message-ID: <84194@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 07:21:52 GMT
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- i walk a lot, and it seems like i do a lot of writing in my head while
- i'm walking. tonight, i was going from the student union to the lab,
- and i started getting really angry.
-
- it was dark, a nice evening. i passed people hanging out on campus,
- singly or in groups, and as i walked past them i started thinking
- about how they're all *people*. this concept has always amazed me
- because it's so big. i mean, i'd be driving along a freeway and start
- thinking about how all those other people were driving along and being
- as human as i was and it would be too much to think about all at once,
- trying to imagine what the insides of their realities were like.
-
- but tonight i was kinda bored and hadn't been able to reach a couple
- of friends i'd tried to call and i was thinking about how all these
- people were people but instead of thinking of it in terms of them, i
- was thinking of it in terms of me. i mean, i was shouting inside "all
- of you stupid people who don't pay any attention to anything, why
- don't you talk to me, why don't you see that i'm a really cool person
- and pay attention to me??" i was actually getting rather angry about
- ti, about how we all just ignore everyone else unless we already know
- them or have been introduced and there are people like me running
- around who look average but are really cool that they should want to
- get to know. basically, a five-year-old's rage at not being the center
- of the universe.
-
- as i think about it, though, i do the same thing. there could be some
- really cool people out there i'll never get to know because i won't
- make the first move. but what would i do? and how could i be sure i
- wasn't wasting my time? and how do you figure out from appearances
- which people are really cool and which aren't? i mean, there doesn't
- seem to be any yardstick, no visible outward signs. so it's doomed,
- really. besides, even if you did go up to someone and say "hey, some
- weird instinct tells me you're a really nifty person and i want to
- talk to you" they'd freak and run.
-
- so how do you find cool people? it's easier to be frustrated and
- pissed.
-
- --
- sine | deb
- this doesn't really express what i want it to, but i'm too
- drained/tired to care.
-
-