Headless but not Heartless

Today I feel like telling the world, "I don't need you! I don't even like you! You're stupid and you smell funny!" Now, apart from the fact that the world does in fact smell funny many times, all of the above are, of course, lies.

There are two ingredients that make for this type of attitude. The first is that I feel normal. What I mean is that I have "liking" feelings - not to be confused with "viking" feelings, for I do not (yet) wish to pillage your village.

(Disclaimer: These are just simple liking feelings, not to be confused with "like-like" liking feelings...ok, just so we're all on the same page.)

Couple these "liking" feelings with distrust, and I, just like any physics equation, become a predictable force of antagonism in the world (see above, "you smell funny", etc...).

There is much antagonism in the world. Do you think other antagonistic people follow the same equation? If so, we're an incredibly untrustworthy herd of folks.

And that makes me sad for the whole lot of us.

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 2/16/2004 03:08:00 PM