So, I've been working outside all day and I'm tired and cranky, so... PETTY, IRRELEVANT RANT COMING UP:
The way people talk. It's almost like the art of conversation is lost. I was watching a tape of the morning news and they had a local chef showing how she makes her signature dish (a lobster in a cream sauce). First off, everything was "super"... the lobster was "super fresh", the cream made it "super creamy", the spinach she added was "super healthy" (in a butter sherry cream sauce; m'kay on the healthy). Then she kept saying "and you're going to want to..." before adding each ingredient. "You're going to want to add some sherry and burn off the alcohol... you're going to want to add the butter later so it doesn't burn...."
Am I? Am I GOING to want to? Or do I want to NOW? Or maybe, maybe I just ADD the ingredient instead of worrying about my future emotional wants and needs?
I've also noted that people are now switching pronouns more often. They will start talking in the first person, then they switch to the second person. "I found a flaming bag of dog poo on my front porch this morning... you feel angry, you feel hurt, you feel disrespected." Do I? I don't think I do. I think I'd think it was funny for about nine seconds, then after I cleaned it up I would check my Ring doorbell to see whose front stoop is getting a return package. My therapist says this is either a way to distance from the emotion, or a way to assume connection to others with the emotion. A sort of emotional insecurity.
END RANT.
I know there are more important things; I just am sitting here watching Neil Peart destroy De Slagwerker, I'm on my second vodka, and I thought, "better this than get bummed about serious things."