Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Anger Management















The following is an actual Yahoo chat with FT:


FT: i been working on my anger management issue. now i found out i have a control and possessive issue. it bums me out some
Me: what are you doing for anger management?
FT: talk and productive ways. but the control and possessiveness is something else i have to fix soon otherwise i will have no girlfriend
Me: so what are you doing for the control and possessive issues?
FT: try very hard not to be

I'm going to try very hard to win the lottery. I'm not going to actually buy any tickets, but I'm going to try very hard. That works, right?

While I applaud his ability to recognize a serious character flaw in himself, I wonder if he is sincere. Anger management doesn't seem to be the kind of thing you can just wish into existence. I also question his motives for telling me about his journey to self-improvement. Why do I constantly feel I'm being manipulated by him? Maybe that's just my own issue.

1 comments:

A fair fairy said...

hm dunno. Why would he make that up? that is not particularly the type of things that attracts people in general. Good for him for wanting to work on it. Something might have happened for him to have to come to this realization though - like a bad fight with someone he cares about or something.

why you feel manipulated? because he is ultra weird no? you probably never know what is legit, what is not... I used to be someone like that.