Thank you. [It's quietly said, but sincere.] It keeps being a relief, every time I realize where wires are getting proverbially crossed and I can untangle it a little more.
[D r y:] Of course that often involves an apology on my part, but I'm told that's part of the process sometimes.
I swear, there are days when I think the wardens who weren't inmates would almost all benefit from serving time in one way or another. But then logic catches up with vindictiveness and tells me the ones who don't need it would suffer and the ones who maybe deserve it would probably only get self-righteously indignant about being made to serve, rather than taking the lesson in context to heart. Which is admittedly what I did yesterday.
[Look he's not above recognizing his own hypocrisy.]
I don't think it helps their cause that they're almost all here from desperation, though that's probably unfair. Or that the desperation often comes from lives where they're the ones expected to act before anyone else, or be listened to by everyone else. As I've learned, leaving the contextual mindset behind can be... a challenge.
In this particular moment... the life experiences and worlds we're each individually used to seeing as the default. The patterns of existence in our home worlds that create norms and blind spots we don't recognize to question until they're challenged.
And yet, I would have thought that contextual thinking need not be left behind, only re-calibrated to consider the context of our current space. It too has certain norms and blind spots that are often discounted.
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Thhhhank you...?
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Thank you would be appropriate, yes.
I don't fight people, though.
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I can understand the need for adjustment.
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[D r y:] Of course that often involves an apology on my part, but I'm told that's part of the process sometimes.
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[ There's a dry, teasing tone to the words. No bite. ]
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I swear, there are days when I think the wardens who weren't inmates would almost all benefit from serving time in one way or another. But then logic catches up with vindictiveness and tells me the ones who don't need it would suffer and the ones who maybe deserve it would probably only get self-righteously indignant about being made to serve, rather than taking the lesson in context to heart. Which is admittedly what I did yesterday.
[Look he's not above recognizing his own hypocrisy.]
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...mostly, I just wish some of your fellows would think for more than half a second on more than the most basic level.
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I don't think it helps their cause that they're almost all here from desperation, though that's probably unfair. Or that the desperation often comes from lives where they're the ones expected to act before anyone else, or be listened to by everyone else. As I've learned, leaving the contextual mindset behind can be... a challenge.
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