Random shards of things, still coming to the surface

[azurelunatic]

• There are really only a few opinions that should count: friends/family/people you look up to as role models/the like. Everyone else can go blow Frank the Goat.


• Doing things you'd regret afterwards is a bad idea.


• Almost doing things you'd regret afterwards but not actually doing them is far better than doing them, and everybody has bad impulses sometimes. What matters is that you didn't actually go through with the really bad idea.


• A friend with a crisis is more important than whipping your mom's butt at Trivial Pursuit.

Comments

Re: shards

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Doing things you'd regret afterwards is a bad idea.

Why don't people get this? The long term costs so rarely are worth the short term gain. And yes, almost doing can frequently be helpful...

Re: shards

[azurelunatic]

Sometimes it's really hard to get it at the moment. Immediate gratification plus poor impulse control. However, my bondmate, being one of those I seek to impress/not disappoint, serves as a reasonably reliable person to keep me from going all wacked and doing bad things. If he'd think worse of me for having done something, I don't want to do it.