It may not be uplifting advice, but it's true, and that's much better to hear than some trite quick fix.
This time, the coffee worked, at least somewhat. I don't know if it's the caffeine so much as it is the ritual of making coffee that was important to tell my body/mind, "No, you don't get to roll over and give up."
(It also sure helped to hear this (http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/lyrics/fight.html). I wasn't even thinking about that song when I put the album on, but I'm glad I did.)
I don't think negativity is passive. Pain gets our attention in ways that not even pleasure can, because it indicates things you need to stop doing.
I don't think the problem so much is that people complain; I think the problem is that they don't listen to themselves complaining, and they don't treat it as a symptom of underlying pain and try to figure out what they can do about it.
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Date: 2001-10-13 05:10 pm (UTC)This time, the coffee worked, at least somewhat. I don't know if it's the caffeine so much as it is the ritual of making coffee that was important to tell my body/mind, "No, you don't get to roll over and give up."
(It also sure helped to hear this (http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/lyrics/fight.html). I wasn't even thinking about that song when I put the album on, but I'm glad I did.)
I don't think negativity is passive. Pain gets our attention in ways that not even pleasure can, because it indicates things you need to stop doing.
I don't think the problem so much is that people complain; I think the problem is that they don't listen to themselves complaining, and they don't treat it as a symptom of underlying pain and try to figure out what they can do about it.