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Posted
15 September 2004 @ 7am

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impotent rage

I have so little patience with everyone and everything right now. Objectively, I can see this as a phase, but emotionally, I am ready to explode with anger and resentment.

I no longer have any time for myself. Not a second. I’m talked to on the subway and on the ferry, which were once my safe places. Crazy people accost me on the way to and from the subway. I’m called on the phone while driving, although I don’t pick up. My job requires non-stop interaction with the public. I’m called on lunch breaks, when I get them. For four hours a week I must converse with my classmates, and my conversation is graded. I’m expected to keep up with a certain level of social engagements, which is always a greater level than I can handle. Email addressed to me must be answered promptly or I get a round of “are you okay?” messages. I’m usually talked to as soon I get home and until I go to bed. My phone beeps several times a day with text messages. My weekends are totally booked.

If I ever needed to use the phrase “impotent rage”, now is the time. I must escape.


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3 Comments

Posted by
Lily Bleu
15 September 2004 @ 11am

I’m in the same situation here, only the moment I feel myself getting overwhelmed, stressed, and otherwise exhausted by things I feel as if I must be ungrateful and should simply be glad that I have so much and so many in my life. I’m ready to wave the white flag, though, and beg for a moment to myself. Time to be creative would be so nice right about now…


Posted by
monkeymind
16 September 2004 @ 7am

… backs off slowly …


Posted by
MacAddict
17 September 2004 @ 9am

Are you bipolar?

Happy one minute, sad the next and now add angry to the list. I think perhaps we should examine what we have every now and then and be THANKFUL that it isn’t less. I am not trying to rip into you, I just want to know what it is that has you spinning the wheel of emotions everyday to see what ‘crisis of the day’ will bring to the surface. Heck you even just got a FREE IPOD given to you by your ‘friends’. I would be doing the happy dance all over SF. Every day can’t be a Rosie O’ Donnell Koosh Day, but for the most part, life is good. And judging from your daily observations, your life is much better than most.

Mac