Pricks will be pricks

Hmmmm one person's condescending arrogant prick, is another's confident capable comfort.

It depends on the filters we wear, as to what we see... and a person's writing style that is clipped, and concise, and direct, can appear to one, as arrogant, and to another, just what it is intended to be.... concise.

Taking responsibility for another's intentions can be a dangerous place to view the world... all sorts of imagined slights, defensive stances can arise.

It does depend what we have experienced in our lives, who we believe ourselves to be, where we are at, exactly in that moment, as to how we process another's words.

I love having this kind of a reaction, it is a mirror... and shows me where I need to work... by the triggers that are activated.

And they say "just be yourself"...what if it happens to be a condescending arrogant prick? Or in my case just plain cynical?

Oh, now we have a thread telling us not to be us...

I am legend.

You are who you choose to be.


as to legend?


.....in your own lunchbox.

Wow, Jess is on a roll tonight! Good one

I have a Smurfs lunchbox with Papa Smurf on it.

Papa Smurf is legend.

Smurfs are people too.

I like them because they are blue...

...Now I feel racist...

I wonder what color a smurf turns when choked

Deep blue maybe?

I feel comfortable posting in this thread, the title is just me all over.

For some that is a defense mechanism. Kids are forced to develop it for positive reinforcement when their parents show no affection. That internal praise trick can be pretty goddam powerful - McCain used it.

It goes bad when a person starts letting it out, where it hurts everyone else through exclusion.