Thursday, April 24, 2008

This is why ruminating hurts...

Often times I sit in my office and read message boards. A lot of my job is about hurry up and wait, and so to pass time I keep message boards up on the screen and read a post or two when I get a chance. Anyway, it seems that there are an entire segment of the population that ask the most inane questions. Things like 'I can't possibly get out of debt, I have to make the payments on the beamer!' or 'My husband had three affairs and beats me. Can we work this out?'

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These types of posts really make me want to bash my head into my monitor, but I refrain and often reply with, duh, the answer. Perhaps not always what they WANT to hear, but the answer that any sane person living in the real world would give. The result? I am labeled as abrupt. a, bee, are, you, pee, tea. Abrupt. Why? Because I am not lacking in the common sense that these people obviously are lacking in?

These are the people that I wonder about. I think "how in the world do they manage not to drown themselves while taking a shower?" or "how in the world do they manage to get food from the plate to their mouth without missing?" Maybe I just need to relax a bit and stop ruminating. Perhaps the truth is that some people have brain damage, and it is a larger percentage than we once thought.