Suebob wrote a very insightful essay about forgiveness, which ends with in a typically Suebobian perfect fashion that left me chuckling and nodding in recognition. Forgiveness is not one of my strong suits. A long time ago, people told me that I should find out what I am good at and focus on those things. Turns out that I am excellent at holding grudges. Not long after I read Suebob's post about forgiveness, Steph called.
"You know what's crazy?" she asked me, and then not waiting for an answer, she went on. "MySpace had a survey and one question it asked was about how many people you hate. Lots of people answered that they don't hate anyone because it's too much effort."
"Yeah? Well, they are lying," I replied.
"Seriously," Steph said, "It takes much more effort to try and not hate people."
"Amen to that," I laughed.
I thought about this all as I was trying to sleep earlier this evening, and failing miserably. I have a gig tomorrow to do a workshop, and for no reason at all, I kept fixating on how much more respectable I'd look if I wore a little make-up so that I didn't appear to be the living dead. On the other hand, I'm no better at doing my face than I am at the live-and-let-live philosophy of life, so I suppose I fail on both ends of the kiss and make up spectrum. So it goes.
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That post reminds of this William Gass quote I love: " I write because I hate. A lot. Hard."
ReplyDeleteI'm way too lazy to keep up a good, solid hate for anyone or anything. It's just so much easier to just avoid.
ReplyDeleteI find conversations where someone is angry at someone else and is gossiping about it to usually be more engaging than if we were talking about what's happening at work etc.
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