OhGr - [maJiK]

[wolven7]

This song makes me very happy.

We all believe that the magic is in you
'cause there's making the breakfast
and taking out the garbage too

if as it did turning round
right back on through
cause of facing the music
and taking out the garbage too

breathe scented fuse locked together ever grim
caused their untimely exit
from each and every little thing
we fly between never close enough to view
causing wrong resolution
crossed border line we're drawing through

{ and we
forever never win
silence every witness
ennui
forever never win
the case for existence } x2

thieves who stole the show a little left hand path to grow
show the true sympathetic
a mirror magic puppet show

and we all believe the magic is in you
'cause there's facing the music
and taking out the garbage too

and we
forever never win
silence every witness
ennui
forever never win
the case for existence

http://www.monmouth.com/~sgoldberg/ohgr/majik.htm

Did you ever stop to think about the variations of the phrase "rubbing me the wrong way"? Look at it. It comes form animal handling terminology. You rub an animal the wrong way, and it gets pissed off, and freaks out on you, maybe injuring you. But what were you doing, in the first place? You were Rubbing It. You were giving it affection, and attention. You didn't know that that would upset it, and there was no way For you to know. Now, with other animals, i'll count this as acceptable, for any number of reasons-- an expected degree of empathy, understanding gap, between the two species, whatever-- but in humans...

When being metaphorically or literally rubbed the wrong way, we should be able to stop, say "That upsets me, please stop," and have everything work out... But we, for the most part{,} don't. If we do, more often than not, the other party takes offense, as if we were attacking Them. Is it that same expected degree of empathy? Have we not noticed that we, as a species tend to turn this off? And what's with not being able to point something out to someone as slightly annoying, without them Rupturing something, in a defensive fit?

I bring this up, because i said to someone that various people were rubbing me the wrong way. My mind did as it generally does, in times like this: It stopped, analysed the whole thing etymologically, and then turned it around on me.

Simply some thoughts.

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

That...Is a good thought. How DO you tell someone they're Hurting/Annoying when they think they're being Nice? I've never been able to do it without feeling like an ass, myself, and so put up with a little discomfort because it's generally helped by the fact that it makes them feel good to be doing good stuff.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

The words "I appreciate what you're trying to do, but..." generally help, i've found..

I dunno, though. Won't always work.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Meh, I meant it more rhetorically. And it's more my personal, internal end of things that's Fucked in this situation. Because even with that there's a sense of being an ass, at least on my end.

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[wolven.livejournal.com]

Understood. And that's my wish for you, Today. Among many others.

Happy.