The same way as I’ll have bad moods, I’ll have cold moods. When I’m in a bad mood things’ll strike me as aggrevating, or sad, or repulsive, even if that’s not called for at all.
When I’m in a cold mood, things’ll strike me as absurd, sophomoric, or childish, even if that’s not called for, either.
Being in a cold mood now, lots of things seem very childish and sophomoric and absurd indeed.
I feel a coolness, a cold rationality creeping into more and more of my decisions as I grow older. Is it becuase I’m growing older, or becuase I’m dealing with more and more situations with stakes?
I’ll often say that I have an opinion about a thing, but as soon as that opinion has an impact on reality, it’ll probably change.
My opinions about abortion, or speeding tickets or electrical permitting are not cold or calculated or particularly rational because they’re mostly theater. Theater and the result of personal frustration or elation.
When I’m in a cold mood, things’ll strike me as absurd, sophomoric, or childish, even if that’s not called for, either.
Being in a cold mood now, lots of things seem very childish and sophomoric and absurd indeed.
I feel a coolness, a cold rationality creeping into more and more of my decisions as I grow older. Is it becuase I’m growing older, or becuase I’m dealing with more and more situations with stakes?
I’ll often say that I have an opinion about a thing, but as soon as that opinion has an impact on reality, it’ll probably change.
My opinions about abortion, or speeding tickets or electrical permitting are not cold or calculated or particularly rational because they’re mostly theater. Theater and the result of personal frustration or elation.
Once an opinion of mine sways a member of the town council or supreme court, there’ll be addendums.
I might’a felt one way about inheritance or taxes or screen time or Jesus Christ when I was a teenager, and my opinion about such things was mine and mine alone, but now that it’s not, well, those opinions get a lot less funny in a hurry.
I try’n keep whimsy in the mix as best I can and I think I do a decent job. But there’s only so much room for silliness when you’re an actual honest to goodness adult with responsibilities.
Frankly, I kind of love it. I like feeling that my opinions and choices have an impact and oughta be thought deeply on.
It’s scary because you can mess up and those mess ups can hurt people in ways longer and more deep than might be obvious or entirely O.K.
But everything that’s good’s a little risky, I guess.
It’s scary because you can mess up and those mess ups can hurt people in ways longer and more deep than might be obvious or entirely O.K.
But everything that’s good’s a little risky, I guess.