I am usually the optimist's optimist. But there are days like this when I can't seem to accomplish anything else as I wallow and do laps in my swimming pool of self-pity. I dive to the deepest end and watch the world pass by from underneath my silent abyss of what ifs and why nots while waiting for the answers to come. They don't. Whoever said they don't regret anything they have done or said in their lives is an absolute hypocrite. I think that we all have our secret regrets for which we pat ourselves on the back as a form of contrition and confirmation (though more a way of convincing really) that we have done good and right. But who are we kidding?
Maybe it's because of the combination of getting old and having contracted Inward-Attention-Deficiency- Syndrome (IADS)-- a deficiency I have proclaimed to exist, that makes me have days like this. Though maybe the latter would be the product of the former. In contrast to ADD where kids/adults are deficient in paying attention to outside things, IADS sufferers are deficient in receiving any form of attention from anyone. Anyone at all.
Today I almost had a tantrum because our Yaya (nanny) wouldn't make me coffee at the instant I asked for it. I felt invisible, irrelevant and powerless against her will. All for a cup of coffee I could've made myself. Her cup is in fact nowhere near as good as the one I make, but as in all things in the universe 'tis not about the cup but the power for making one yield into making that cup. Hmmm. Maybe it's time to take THAT happy pill.
To my 11 followers, my apologies. I will be back on a better day. Now to dive back into my pool...
Maybe it's because of the combination of getting old and having contracted Inward-Attention-Deficiency- Syndrome (IADS)-- a deficiency I have proclaimed to exist, that makes me have days like this. Though maybe the latter would be the product of the former. In contrast to ADD where kids/adults are deficient in paying attention to outside things, IADS sufferers are deficient in receiving any form of attention from anyone. Anyone at all.
Today I almost had a tantrum because our Yaya (nanny) wouldn't make me coffee at the instant I asked for it. I felt invisible, irrelevant and powerless against her will. All for a cup of coffee I could've made myself. Her cup is in fact nowhere near as good as the one I make, but as in all things in the universe 'tis not about the cup but the power for making one yield into making that cup. Hmmm. Maybe it's time to take THAT happy pill.
To my 11 followers, my apologies. I will be back on a better day. Now to dive back into my pool...
