tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post8891199455431887894..comments2023-10-10T05:17:55.737-07:00Comments on Crushed By Ingsoc: Why I Think I am The Way I Am.Crushedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-24295625023335348482008-08-07T16:56:00.000-07:002008-08-07T16:56:00.000-07:00Well we all do what we have to to get through life...Well we all do what we have to to get through life as unscathed as possible.<br><br>It's good that you have friends like that around you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-47361024065138950142008-08-07T18:53:00.000-07:002008-08-07T18:53:00.000-07:00Lol at the psychologist conversation. Your reacti...Lol at the psychologist conversation. Your reaction is typical. And that actually speaks well for you. You're a human being. To expect something other than than the obvious human reaction to something so basic would be to think of yourself as something other than human.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-54660502612887563322008-08-08T00:01:00.000-07:002008-08-08T00:01:00.000-07:00It always feels as though I fall behind on your bl...It always feels as though I fall behind on your blog simply because I can't just scan through your posts and leave a simple comment. It all needs to be read in detail and considered... so this doesn't really work as I'm just sipping a coffee and casually surfing about.<br><br>The one thing I've noticed over the year or so that I've been reading you, is how much more insightful your writing has gotten. We all have our blind spots, to be sure, but you seem to be starting to poke around the edges a little more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-50089823482783523922008-08-08T06:21:00.000-07:002008-08-08T06:21:00.000-07:00crushed not having a witty come back? Wow...crushed not having a witty come back? Wow...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-88906499475214929932008-08-08T18:58:00.000-07:002008-08-08T18:58:00.000-07:00I agree with princess pointful - you really do se...I agree with princess pointful - you really do seem to be opening up a lot more and figuring out why you are the way you are etc. Your writing is a lot more personable than it was, and it's good to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-62275954653331611072008-08-08T22:02:00.000-07:002008-08-08T22:02:00.000-07:00Pretty cool.You've learnt to live and survive in a...Pretty cool.<br>You've learnt to live and survive in a way many others couldn't have. The stuff of your hotel years could make a best-selling book, I'd bet :-)<br>Ok, putting you in an express class can be blamed; so many kids who go in those turn out like you (we don't have that over here in the government schools).<br>I can see that liking you would be easy; living with you less so ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-52496424960631341172008-08-09T11:26:00.000-07:002008-08-09T11:26:00.000-07:00Bunny- I agree. Not sure how unscathed I got throu...Bunny- I agree. Not sure how unscathed I got through it though, I think in a lot of ways I'm quite damaged goods.<br><br>But, yes, I do have good friends.<br><br>X-dell- I've read enough psychology to know what a lot of this psycho-analysis seeks to discover.<br><br>And women LOVE to psycho-analyse you...<br><br>Princess P- :) This one actually took ages to write.<br><br>I guess I've started to Try address why it is I have the operating mechanisms I do, rather than just stop at the simple part of admitting you're like that.<br><br>Crashie- No, no witty comeback. There are times when you don't have to WIN a conversation.<br><br>Kate- It's probably become more the way I naturally talk. I think now, I pretty much write exactly how I speak. I think earlier on, I didn't QUITE do that.<br><br>I'm actually finding following the rapid evolution of online communication to be fascinating- the start of a whole new chapeter in human interaction.<br><br>Eve- And it's been very draining having somehow make that work- in so many ways, this life strategy has cost me. I am the first person to say 'Don't try this at home kids', as in, don't live your life the way I do mine. Any of you.<br><br>Because I paid a huge price for it. But, having paid that price, i'll stick with it, because having paid the price, it now becomes the life chosen, And I get something out of it, and I doubt any other life could work- for me.<br><br>But in many ways, it really is a hard lifestyle to lead.<br><br>What it really means is always being alone at the centre of the crowd.<br><br>It's about whether you really can find satisfaction in that being your life.<br><br>And I do.<br><br>Yes, liking me is no hard task, I don't think. Living with me probably deserves a nobel prize. I'm not easy to live with all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com