Trite but Truisms - Chuck Palahniuk's Plot Spoiler
Well there are two truisms (I'll let you be the judge on whether or not they're trite) that are rolling around a lot in my mind lately.
One is an internet that says - "there's two ways to look at "no one gives a shit!" - one is a yellow, smiley happy guy jumping for joy, the other is a glum blue guy with a dejected look on his face.
The other is a quote from Nietzsche - "I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company."
I find these two inter-related. I really, really hate having my solitude stolen. Why? Because it is never, ever exchanged for true company. It's exchanged for someone wanting an audience to chatter endlessly about some trivial, insignificant thing that no one else could possibly care about.
A man wiser than myself once said "our great depression is our lives." I think that's true for many of us, but Christ, please offer a guy a little give-and-take, and at least offer the pretense that you give a shit about him.
But then again, I think this problem is part of the root of our great depression as a society - no one gives a shit.
Oh, and by the way, just FYI for anyone reading, I'm a therapist. I'm going to start telling people I'm a plumber, or an accountant.
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