Freedom and minor revelations

[madscriptor]

An interesting thing happened today, so I figured I would share it.  Not so much for the situation itself as for the principle behind it.  Today, I took finals, and I managed to get through the ultimate semester from hell alive.  (Yeay, me.)  Leaving my last test, I ran into a friend who felt his life was over because of one of his professors was a

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[qadira]

I have a morbid fascination with reader comments to online newspaper articles. There are a lot of miserable people who hide behind the anonymity of the internet to dish out their particular flavor of spleen and vindictive spite.

Culturally, cutting ties with family is borderline taboo. The level of toxic behavior that is culturally acceptable is shockingly high.

And like you say, it is pervasive throughout all types of relationships, from social to work to family.

Ugh.

[liles_torna]

Damn right, girl, there's people like that out there and by the dozens! I used to feel awful every time I ran into one of them because I thought I had to either help/vindicate myself but then I understood I couldn't possibly take it as something personal because THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW ME! They do it to everyone, wholesale shooting kinda thing, so off my mind, and pushed away to a safe distance. It's also an excercise in compassion/cruelty to see that I have to deal with them once in a while but they have to live with their miserable selves -all- the time *snicker*