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Various of you have said sensible things in response to my post yesterday.
It's true that I limit who I rant to, and when, and that I try to give good advice if I'm giving advice at all. It's true that I've got some idea of what I can and can't do (bilocation and teleportation not being things we have available), a sense of my priorities, and schedule based in part on that.
The thing is, it's not that I don't think I'm a sensible person--it's that being told I am repeatedly, by people who I also think of as sensible, feels like people repeatedly pointing out that I'm right-handed or a native speaker of English. Yes, I am. So are most of them. But what they're saying is not "Hey, you're right-handed, just like me" (which would be weird already) but "Hey, you're right-handed, how cool!" as if it were something unusual.
I wonder if my friends are giving themselves--yourselves--enough credit for your own intelligence and good judgment. The only sensible thing I can think of that I do and a lot of other people don't is that I don't run for subway trains. I'll run for a once-an-hour commuter rail, or for a train or plane on which I have a ticket and a reservation--though I usually leave enough time that I don't need to, being if anything neurotic about being early--but not for the rush hour A when there's another along in a few minutes.
[I think I need an introspection/self-analysis userpic, or to assign one of my existing ones to that; this is more the relationships icon. Nusuth.]
It's true that I limit who I rant to, and when, and that I try to give good advice if I'm giving advice at all. It's true that I've got some idea of what I can and can't do (bilocation and teleportation not being things we have available), a sense of my priorities, and schedule based in part on that.
The thing is, it's not that I don't think I'm a sensible person--it's that being told I am repeatedly, by people who I also think of as sensible, feels like people repeatedly pointing out that I'm right-handed or a native speaker of English. Yes, I am. So are most of them. But what they're saying is not "Hey, you're right-handed, just like me" (which would be weird already) but "Hey, you're right-handed, how cool!" as if it were something unusual.
I wonder if my friends are giving themselves--yourselves--enough credit for your own intelligence and good judgment. The only sensible thing I can think of that I do and a lot of other people don't is that I don't run for subway trains. I'll run for a once-an-hour commuter rail, or for a train or plane on which I have a ticket and a reservation--though I usually leave enough time that I don't need to, being if anything neurotic about being early--but not for the rush hour A when there's another along in a few minutes.
[I think I need an introspection/self-analysis userpic, or to assign one of my existing ones to that; this is more the relationships icon. Nusuth.]
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