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Rated: 13+ · Book · Biographical · #1317094
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
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#575802 added March 26, 2008 at 1:54pm
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Under the influence of being an asshole (black and blue)
This is my black-and-blue response to "Invalid Entry" Open in new Window. by objurgate for "Follow the Leader"  Open in new Window. by mood indigo Author Icon

Five ways in which I can be an asshole:

1.

When I assume that everyone is motivated by the same things that move me, I can fail to honor that person's individual identity.

2.

When I say something out of pain or lash out in anger, I hurt someone else in return. I continue the unhealthy cycle.

3.

When I take umbrage at what someone else has said, assuming it was said to personally hurt me, responding negatively when I should just shrug it off.

4.

When I think I'm brilliant; when I want to toot my own horn. Not because that is a bad idea and not because I can't be utterly brilliant, but because the world truly doesn't care. If I can except that, my response to their lack of response won't be so whiny.

5.

When I wear a mask thinking no one can see right through it.

objurgate finishes with:

How many of you are drunk? Because I know I am.

Well, I never drink. But that doesn't make me better or worse as a person ... just sober. When I am an asshole, I don't even have the excuse of being drunk.

I have two responses to this prompt. This is my black-and-blue mildly bruised follow-the-leader follow-up (yes, I'm HSP = highly sensitive person). My red-and-black rant back at the original prompt is found here: "Red-and-black rant: under the influence of being an asshole" Open in new Window. in my [GC] rated Hoarfrosts from Hell blog.

This is my 16th response for FTL.

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My previous entries:

1. "Crying children" Open in new Window. Circle round in adoration
2. "Gone, fishing" Open in new Window. Old tin bucket
3. "How I behave around different people" Open in new Window. In five part disharmony; also in "Friendship and family" Open in new Window.
4. "Level 28 Blood Elf Hunter" Open in new Window. Letter from Kwn
5. "Hobo stew" Open in new Window. Sopa
6. "She wants to know if I'm lost" Open in new Window. Anemones
7. "Thirteen ways of looking at a blank page" Open in new Window. Counting back from 13
8. "Sarcasm dripping from most of its wonderful crevices" Open in new Window. Me Attitude
X. "And they paved paradise" Open in new Window. ... me very own lead entry ... *Laugh*
9. "This time last year" Open in new Window. March any year
10. "Well whaddya know?" Open in new Window. Well whaddya know?
11. "Bonus (Bones, Bones R Us, Us Bones)" Open in new Window. ... for Shannon's "Bonus".
12. "Easter isn't really about bunnies" Open in new Window.
13. "Birthdays and Boundaries, What a Bonus!" Open in new Window. Birthdays and boundaries
14. "Zany Schemes" Open in new Window. Birth and Death of Dreams
15. "Not only did I fall off the desk" Open in new Window. Making a fool of myself

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