Monday

I’ve been wanting to write here. Maybe some interesting thoughts I’ve had about life. Maybe some nice things that have happened. But lately all I find on my mind is how annoying people can be. Doesn’t that sound harsh and unkind?

I don’t know if it’s written in the stars or some kind of pattern but I’ve been sorely annoyed.

What bothers me the most is the impossible importance of self that so many share. People seem to constanly see things thru their own sense of how it affects the proverbial great “Me.” God forbid, we should feel offended. Since when did feeling offended become such a huge transgression?
Since when did the average stranger feel they have the right to tell others what they think of them? When did being a poor victim become something to strive for so you can get attention? When did manners go out of style? I imagine all this has always been here. Sometimes we can brush it off and sometimes we can’t.

I’m sure in time, I’ll not be as bothered by this as I am now. It comes and goes because I do remember feeling it before. Usually I can be aware of it and pass it off but sometimes it just really gets to me and I feel like saying, no more Mr. Nice Guy here. Go ahead and be rude to me one more time and I’ll happily take you on.

In the last couple days, I got into two people’s face and confronted them on their selfish rude comments and I let two others go by without a comment, but only out of slight shock of the unexpected. So I guess I’m running even but I do intend to say something sometime to those two. Just not now when I’m angry.

And sometimes I just need to sit and think on these things. I usually have a reason very quickly for why I’m bothered but I find that if I continue to be bothered by it, then there’s a deeper reason. Time usually gives me that reason.

I’d go into details here but then it would seem so petty. But sometimes petty has a deeper underlying layer to it.

Also it seems like whenever I read something on the internet, whether it’s an article or news story, there’s this comment section below. It seems rather popular and actually encouraged to pick people apart, from their clothes, hairstyle, actions or inactions, etc. Maybe people are now taking that into real life. What happened to “live and let live” especially when it doesn’t affect anyone else’s life? Sure, I don’t have to read the comments and now I don’t but when did this all become so commonplace?
I don’t really know the answer but people annoy me right now so please excuse me.