Monday, May 3, 2010
Sleep. Sleep is good. It helps people function, carry out several very important actions in their day to day, like decision making. Well screw that.

If I don't have sleep and I have a situation to explain, a decision to make, I'll just make do. Here's the decision: No matter how emotional, whiny, or irrational I get I will end this thing with a mature outlook.

So the problem? Conceding. How is it when I aim to make the mature decision I concede to what others want to hear and it's like I drop my point on the floor and watch it shatter into a million little pieces? Obviously I am not the only person in need of change. It's like this, for any halved thing to work, both halves have to maintain their shape to fit into this one bigger thing. A half can't decide to change shape and expect to fit with the other half. Either the second one adapts it's shape to regain sibilance or both halves move on to become something else. Is this ambiguous half analogy too confusing? Think of when half the band quits, are you going to switch to an acoustic vocals and guitar duo or do you ask the drummer and the bassist to work out a compromise with you? Far more comical example is dressing up as a horse for Halloween, since there are so many problems with one person being the head and the other person being the ass.

Conceding, it seems, also works best when one person seems crazier than the other. When given the option to reword something ten times, over analyze it, and say it online or via text, I become at least ten times crazier than the more rational, although sometimes voice raising, girl who has the same conversation in person. When you are limited to only your words to work with, and you are also attempting to make a living out of working with words, you do not get the same effect or approach as someone who sits down and tries to have the same conversation in a mature manner.

So what is mature? Conceding is submissive. Compromising is mature.
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