An intermittent reminder about Things

[azurelunatic]

Many "this is a tiny thing that has been annoying/worrying/otherwise Bothering me but I'm oversensitive and it's too small to disturb the People In Charge of Making Things Right" things can be prevented from growing into The Problem That Laid Waste to the Shinjuku District (Again) if addressed while still small.

Even very busy important people who do six impossible things before breakfast sometimes appreciate having a small and possible problem to address as a break from rebuilding the Shinjuku District after last time this happened.

Comments

[shadowspar]

I appreciate, approve of and heartily endorse this reminder.

After a fashion, it parallels a common one of my own: if something is not working, before kicking yourself for not being able to get it working, first ask if it has ever in fact worked at all.

[azurelunatic]

That is an excellent thing to check on, oh yes.

[ilyena_sylph]

Demon Quake, Godzilla, Arago, or Beryl/Prince Diamond/Sailor Galaxia?

[azurelunatic]

A general observation, that when something's busting up the place in Tokyo, that's the area that tends to be named as taking a fuckton of damage. Courtesy of watching far too much anime with the BFF.

[sithjawa]

I, too, approve this statement.

My personal addendum: It's a little difficult to define oversensitive. "Too sensitive for what?" Anyway one is exactly as sensitive as one is, and I've yet to meet a problem that bothers one less because one says "oh, I'm just being oversensitive." (That usually just makes one have to deal with the problem itself and the problem "lack of validation" as well ... Which reminds me that addressing a bug may create two bugs, but failing to address a bug and just writing around it will create four!)

Perhaps by "I'm oversensitive" one means "This problem will not yet bother most people." It may be helpful to identify *why* it won't yet bother most people, because that can help identify how soon it's going to eat Tokyo. Of course, this is only necessary if you *can't* just deal with it right away, because it's often easier to actually solve the problem than it is to make plans for dealing with not having solved the problem!

[azurelunatic]

For social problems, it's often "You, as a Lady, or person who gets harassed like a chick, aren't emotionally tough enough to work in a Man's Industry." Which, that can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut; it can take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon.

[sithjawa]

Yeah, people who don't have to deal with half the shit are *totally more emotionally tough.* *eyeroll* untested strength is arbitrarily strong after all.

[azurelunatic]

I was wandering around the youtubes looking for that clip from HIMYM where Ted and Marshall are in a gay bar and their attitude at being hit on progresses from magnanimous to snippily cheesed off in about 6 hits.

It is from "Single Stamina", and it is a nice, relatively brief illustration of how it's usually not the individual tiny thing, it's all of them.

(Of course, it isn't a perfect thing because dude could walk out of the gay bar and generally a person who looks like a lady can't just WALK OUT OF HER LIFE and also there's an element of homophobia, but.)