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OftenBen · 4044 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: First-borns do better in school and life, it's a fact. Were you a first born child? Does it ring true?
First off, no anger here, I can appreciate your comment without taking offense. Second, when I said 'screw everyone and everything else' I was (inaccurately) expressing the idea that I can't worry about everyone and everything else or I will go insane. That I must devote time and love to things I care about, and have only compassion for anyone who bugs me. Not love necessarily, not anger either, but compassion, and an empathetic understanding that the person being a jerk had something happen to them that twisted them to be a jerk.
pseydtonne · 4044 days ago · link ·
Gotcha. I sympathize. It's why I avoid my home town like the plague: it is home to several people I love, but it's a psychic swamp. Every time I spend longer than two days in the place, my depression paralyzes me.