Before I get
into some serious business, I do want to write something positive. I’m looking
forward to Crosstown wings tomorrow night for the Rangers vs. Blackhawks game
and I’m glad I’ll be able to watch the game with a friend. I’m thinking I will have
some peanut butter and jelly wings as well as some chile lime dry rubbed wings.
I also ran an indoor 5k yesterday in 24:30. I am one month away from the 8k/5 mile
run downtown and I’m not sure my endurance is where I want it, but I am pushing
myself every time I run. Each time, I get a little faster and a little
stronger. But when the outdoor elements come into play, the circumstances can
be altered dramatically. I hope I will be able to handle it. OK, onto the business at hand.
There are
certain types of people I have seen who are draining to people they come in
contact with. They are purely self-centered despite their different moods and
attitudes. One group of people that I can’t understand is the attention whores. These
are the people who send out 20 tweets a day, the ones who post on FB every
single hour, text every couple of hours just to see how you are doing, and are
always the first one to respond to a post from their FB friend. It’s just
draining. They feel so little about themselves and are so miserable that they
need to be noticed by someone to gain that temporary fix of relief. They know
with perfect clarity that others can detect it like a K-9 sensing a dead body. And they don’t care that it is the wrong kind
of attention. They can have the best intentions in the world, but they push and
push to get closer and the rest of us just want to get away from them.
Another group
that demonstrates self-righteous are those who feel they have they can accurately judge a
person’s character based over one sentence, over one message, or over one
picture. Sometimes, I wonder about writing here. The writer never knows who reads
the words or how they are being perceived. But I can feel confident that if
they have read a lot of my posts, they can have a reasonable idea of who I am,
even if they haven’t met me. When it comes to social media, it’s so much more
difficult. One tweet does not define a person’s character. Nor does one
meeting. It is far wiser to meet someone, decide if they are worth getting to
know, and then keeping an open mind as they get to know each other better. I
don’t know how often Mother Theresa got mad, but if I happened to run into her in
a moment where she was upset for some reason, does that mean I can assume she is
always an angry person?
Oh and there’s
another group I want to point out and this one is just pitiful. Those people
who just seek a reaction. These are the people whose lives are so boring and so
bland and so without any purpose or direction that they live to provoke people,
hoping they will trigger some sort of emotional reaction. Specifically, it is
reflected in actions like a New York Yankees fan suddenly becoming a Seattle Mariners
fan. It is manifested in them repeatedly voting for Felix Hernandez in the Face
of MLB twitter contest. And for what reason? Just because he’s going against
David Wright of the New York Mets and they have that much hatred for the Mets
and their fans. And because these people don’t have anything more worthy to do
with their ample amount of free time.
My goal is
not to punish them, but to simply live with happiness and contentment in spite of
them. Hopefully, they can learn to do the same.
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