Comments on: Emotional Oscillation

By: Scottie D

Scottie D — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:51:56 +0000

Compassion. Always. Wins.

Most rage and disgust you ever feel comes from inside you, so you own it first. Yeah, some external things are downright sucky and too hard to digest sometimes. But not as much as you think. Most people automatically revert to hatred and anger – it’s the default for our lazy selfish culture with generalized malcontention that they can’t even identify the source of in the first place. Only you can stop it, if you’re strong enough.

By: Luis Merino

Luis Merino — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:20 +0000

I can relate to the feeling you processed in your situation. Our sub-concious mind is tricky, and some times confusing, such mix emotions are something only we humans experience… For what I can tell even the better diplomat in the world would feel rush, anger and frustation under external pressure, the question is: how well can you turn it around and deal with it? It takes some personal maturity to be able to see these situations for what they really are in the end, and it’s a never-ending lesson you can follow your entire life :)

Cheers!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:58:57 +0000

I can really associate with this kind of guilt, especially when someone asks me a stupid question – defined as something I’ve answered for them multiple times before – and I find it utterly impossible to just smile and answer it again. For the sake of my career, not to mention reputation as a generally nice person, I should do exactly that, but it’s just. so. hard. The best I can manage is a half-smile, half-grimace, and a comment along the lines of, “Remember the last time we talked about this?”

By: Devin Walker

Devin Walker — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:45 +0000

I see that all the time in downtown San Diego, probably not as much as Chicago but still similar. Subway is good. :: Five :: Five Dollar :: Five Dollar Foot Long ::

Nice article in web design magazine BTW, it was a great read… kind of short though.

By: david karapetyan

david karapetyan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:50:51 +0000

What you need is a healthy dose of behind the counter customer service work that requires dealing with all kinds of weirdos and you’ll become immune to stuff like this in no time.

By: M Shaffer

M Shaffer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:43:50 +0000

There was a comedian who said he was in stand-still traffic one day in New York City. A guy behind him starts honking his horn and yelling at him to move forward. The cars in front of the comedian weren’t going anywhere, but the guy in back was honking at HIM to move! So, the comedian gets out of his car, walks back to the guy, and the guy says “get going!” So the comedian says to the guy, “Yeah, well, you’re wearing my jacket! When are you going to give me back my jacket?” The guy looks at him with this scared look in his eyes, thinking the comedian is crazy. MORAL: Sometimes, to get a crazy person to get off your back, you have to appear to be crazier than anyone he/she has ever seen.

By: McBonio

McBonio — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:30:36 +0000

I would opt for #1 ;)

Joking aside I think #1 and #2 are typical human emotions to certain situations, you flick between the 2, then call it a tie and don’t bother doing either! (well I do anyway! lol)

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:53:41 +0000

I feel your pain, I go through the same thing all the time.

There should be some kind of label to put on people so they are just embarrassed into being quiet and leaving everyone alone. Is that still horrible or a decent compromise between violence and helping? Eh, still horrible I guess.

Max – I give you a lot of respect for trying to help a person a day. That’s something we should all be trying to do.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:31:36 +0000

I can so relate to this situation. I live in Cape Town where there are a fair deal of beggars.

One can’t help everyone, and while I try to help out 1 person every day, sometimes someone with a mental problem (or a drinking one) really gets on my nerves.

I always say “no, but good luck” politely twice, but when the guy starts insisting, I can be quite rude.

And then I feel really bad.