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jupiterorbit

My War on Cynicism

Apr 07, 2011 22:51

I was talking to my best friend when she was here for a week, and a mutual former friend came up. She still has contact with him occasionally, but she told me that she really had no desire to go actively look him up while she was down because of how he'd sounded in their last dozen or so phone calls. She couldn't quite put her finger on it, that ( Read more... )

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hunrvogt April 8 2011, 13:11:46 UTC

Amen. Skepticism is good. Thinking is good.

That guy almost sounds like he has gone from cynicism to pessimism. Bill confess. Wil tired of the pessimism. Yes the world is tough. Do something to positively impact your portion of it. Don't respond to every solution with a can't be done. And if at the end of the day you really choose to take no action, then choose acceptance orr or recognize that you are the problem.

PS I keep meaning to tell you two if you are ever up towards Wilsonville, you should go to Dar Esalem. Great Morrocan food and the couple that owns that place are wonderful hosts. Plan on spending at least to hours on dinner.

jupiterorbit April 9 2011, 04:37:35 UTC

Hey, thanks for the Moroccan recommendation. We'll have to check it out some time. I have to confess to a stupid flinch, though: for those of us who drive that stretch of I-5 regularly, Wilsonville is known as "the nexus of stupid". For some reason, traffic slows down starting there & extending about 5 miles north & behaves boneheadedly for no apparent reason. There was construction there for a while, granted, but it finished last year; it's as if the ghosts of cranes & bulldozers haunt drivers there.

jupiterorbit April 9 2011, 04:38:53 UTC

And yeah (and it looks like you had a weird mobile malfunction on the typing, but oddly the guy's name is Will & he went by Bill in high school), Bill has pegged as pessimism, I think. He's in the habit of presenting as a cynic, though.

hunrvogt April 11 2011, 13:53:12 UTC

Yay it should have read "I'll confess. I'm tired of the pessimism". But given his name it's funnier with the typo.

I like the hotels in Wilsonville. I'm very meh on most of the restaurants, but that place is awesome. Tell Dee and Abdullah that the female chicken doctor sent you (I was introduced to the place by my boss).

http://www.daressalam.org/

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jupiterorbit April 9 2011, 04:34:47 UTC

Fear is *huge*. There's no denying that. But I'm with you on the "stagnation is no part of my lifeplan". Hell, no. I know people whose greatest fear is losing their mental faculties, their mind. That's a big fear of mine as well, but you know? I'd rather that than stew in self-reinforced cynicism every single day.

imdonnan April 8 2011, 14:18:20 UTC

Very interesting. This hits on a couple of thoughts that I have been noodling on for the past years or so ( ... )

andras120 April 8 2011, 16:41:57 UTC

I've come to learn (for myself) that cynicism was a shield with which I held the world at bay. If I professed no interest in something, if I "sneered" at any positive potential of that thing, then I didn't have to engage it or become involved in it. I could be "safe" from potential failure and hurt, while at the same time projecting a worldliness that some found attractive. Or so I thought. In the long run I simply became isolated and mean spirited ( ... )

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