so i was sitting in art class this morning (TOTALLY paying attention), pondering my neurosis. i've always done my best to identify my poor/strange behaviors and correct/modify them to be more beneficial to myself and those around me. it's the least any of us can do as human beings to try better our actions and thought processes. so i was sitting there thinking about how this is going to be a lifelong process of spotting these personality oddities and shooting them down. that's when it hit me. will this behavior end up the same way everyone says is dangerous about antibiotics. the whole idea that with antibiotic drugs, any survivng bacteria is as a result resistant to that type of drugs. ending with the evolution of a super-bug that drugs dont work on, eventually killing everyone.
would the same thing be acheived by constantly trying to eliminate the strange parts of my brain? would i eventually develop some...thing, that is so far and beyond weird, that it would be life shattering.
would it be better to just settle on and accept a handful of traits (i.e. losing attention when people talk, being cheap with money, whistiling too much at innapropriate times, being afraid of puppies, ect..ect..), and call it a day?
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The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. ~Henry Miller
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ~Goethe
I say accept your "personality oddities". It makes for so much more of an interesting person. If you were to eventually cut all of them out, if everyone did this, then we would all be the same and life wouldn't have any spice.
who's afraid of PUPPIES????
I hear ya tho McD. Good that you see this now before you get to be 40 and then you have SO much more to work on!
Oh and BTW I wanna know what "whistling at inappropriate times" means, did you wolf whistle at your mom or something?
Or do you whistle during sex?
introspective examination, like martinis, is best enjoyed in moderation. You could chase your tail, hopping from one causation to the next and following each thread of consciousness to every conceivable outcome and still find more to wonder about. Somerset Maugham's character, Larry Darrel is a study into that kind of a search.
I don't know that such introspection, left to run it's course has helped me any. Let's get a beer and philosophise...
If you whistle during sex, you might want to have a Dr. look at your man-tackle...
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