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- From: llama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: the angst.cops ride again?
- Message-ID: <86632@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:47:02 GMT
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- bleah. having survived a "her stuff isn't *real* angst" assault a
- month or so ago, now i find myself on what feels like the opposite
- side of a similar situation wrt the hermes situation.
-
- only i don't think it's the same thing at all. the posts in question
- weren't about anything more than cutesy exhortations for everyone to
- cheer up and be happy, the sort of thing that some people delight in
- posting here from time to time, either because they get a perverse joy
- out of being snarled at or because they misguidedly think they can
- somehow help all those poor depressed people feel better.
-
- speaking as nothing more than one of those poor depressed people, i
- can say that i don't like being told to cheer up, mostly because i
- don't think it would change my life all that much. i mean, my life is
- hardly a bleak landscape of gray trees and brown dirt. i do things
- that bring me a great deal of joy. i have people i love, places i like
- to hang out, things i enjoy doing. i also have what sometimes seems
- like a disproportionate amount of shit in my life. i write about those
- things, some of them very painful, because writing about them gives me
- a way to look at them and get some perspective. posting the things i
- write puts me in touch with other people who say "yeah! i know exactly
- what you mean, i've felt that way before." and sometimes experiences
- have left me feeling a little wiser than when i started, and sharing
- the insight with people who seem interested in hearing about it makes
- me feel vaguely worthwhile.
-
- so if people wanna post silliness here, or stories about how amazingly
- wonderful their lives are, or whatever, more power to them; i don't
- mind. i'm not the angst.police and i refuse to decide who's expressing
- realangst [tm]. just so long as people don't try to dictate how i
- should deal with my life, they can say what they want. when they start
- trying to tell me how to live, though, i'm going to tell them to get
- fucked, more or less, because i prefer to figure out for myself how i
- want to be living, thankyouverymuch.
-
- --
- deb | sine
- "they're telling me questions and asking me lies" -- the replacements
-