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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (86069)8/22/2000 6:25:54 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
There are people who, while apparently lacking in malicious intent, are seemingly oblivious to the negative results of their behavior on others and even when it is pointed out to them, are confident that it is everyone else's problem, for sure it couldn't be theirs, and so go right on with their irritating behavior.

FS's post about how he reveled in every moment of his colicky infant's sleepless nights reminded me of an article I did a couple of years back about how I went without sleep for four years after CW was born, grabbing naps standing in the grocery line or while driving. In the piece, I mentioned the horrible mother-- every mom's group has one-- who would announce how HER child slept through his own circumcision and every night thereafter.

I disliked her almost as much as the mom who complained that her Size 4 jeans were a little tight when she wore them home from the hospital after giving birth to twins, after I'd just admitted I still had a few pregnancy pounds to lose before CW graduated from high school.

Aldous Huxley said, "I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness".
I would say it's something more than boring, that it's irritating as hell.
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