These Days

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I just watched a rather nasty interchange between a couple of people and in doing so it really hit home just how miserable and self loathing mean, arrogant, aggressive people actually are.

Just…miserable. I knew on an intellectual level that the cruel ultimately deserved my sympathy rather than my disdain, but I actually felt it for the first time today. Just how impoverished their inner worlds are, and that the last thing they need is more darkness, or more cruelty as fitting a response as that may initially seem to be.

I don’t mean that to sound sanctimonious or holier than thou, though I think it’s starting to come off that way. I’m not talking about the days on which you feel cranky, pissy and miserable like the universe has it out for you. I mean a person who is consistently, systemically hyper aggressive, cruel and over-reactionary. Their hearts and minds are just impoverished, scary, mean places.

It’s sad.

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