On 10/3/2014 4:28 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
Trust me, I’ve got curmudgeon down. Okay, but not with people I like. I’m a
situational curmudgeon.
When I was much younger, I imagined that life would start to get crappy somewhere in my 50s; certainly anything after
the turn of the millennium was bound to be bad. My imagined response to this future state of affairs was to be a really
first class curmudgeon, taking out my frustrations on others. Not that that's how I would have described it then. :-)
As it has turned out, life has continued to get better with each decade. I have no reason to be mean, sarcastic,
demeaning, short, and so on, with people.
The nice thing is that if one genuinely likes people* and interacts pleasantly with them, expecting them to turn out to
be nice too, there seems to be a positive feedback loop. Life is even better, with even less to allow one to be upset.
Smooth Sailing Moose
* No, I'm not an extrovert. Liking people in general and being warm and pleasant with them does not mean one must spend
most of one's time interacting at length with extroverts That would make my life unbearable. :-)
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