I’ve never tolerated over enthusiastic people very well (unless it’s about coding, or gaming …). I am really rather British about the whole thing and as a general rule extreme emotions terrify me.
My stiff upper lip and stoicism is practiced and rehearsed daily. I’m fine! At least I have fun painkillers! Ah well, could be worse, my leg could actually fall off!
The last time I cried was last weekend. But that was not in front of people. And it was only because I was tired and really sad that my friends had all gone. I don’t make friends easily, I never have, but I was at ease with real people 🙂
I thought I’d lost that when Mrs Gypsytree left. I’d wanted to give one particular person a hug before they left, because they’d made a weird situation totally normal. I kicked myself for that afterwards. But not being a hugging person normally, I went Sheldon about it all.
Public leaking is to be avoided at all costs. We are not sad. It’s just raining on our face.
Any form of anger & resentment must be stored in an airtight container and sat on…. Until I fall off and express a completely irrational rant at someone who probably doesn’t deserve it.
And today, it’s you, you bloody chirpy over optimistic gits with your mood enhancing memes.
Piss off. I’m British. If I didn’t complain about something, I’d die. It’s a bonding ritual! It’s the way we deal with our anger. We don’t have guns you see, so when people drive us crazy, we internalise it all and it escapes in tiny pieces of irritable sniping like a fart that you just can’t hold in. (Except we would hold that in).
Add to this the current bloggers using the invisible illness awareness week to push the idea that exercise will cure everything because you just need to work with your body and clean air….. just try making my body run. Actually, try getting my body to get in and out of the bath. Now tell me I get out what I put in. In the words of my daughter “what’s that on your face???!” *slaps me* “it’s pain”.
This equally applies to any gym instructor who uses the word “buddy” or whoops unnecessarily during a class (hint: it’s never necessary to whoop).
A positive mental attitude in true British terms is : this current situation may be a pile of donkey crap, but we shall car
ry on and ignore it. Nothing to see here. Good day sir.
The Hippy Geek 