Comments on: the way i’m wired

By: Michael Too

Michael Too — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:07:29 +0000

I was doing a similar inventory recently to try to figure out why I was so irresponsible. I realized that I never had any chores, never was taught any good habits and never really had to work for anything. Aside from that, I don't know that my father (who is now my only living parent) ever specifically taught me anything (besides how to punt a football well).

The question now is whether I can use my own intelligence and will to make myself over and create good habits.

I think your parents were pretty wonderful, in some respects. I'm glad they taught you all those things or you might not have been the great person you are today and then "thisfish" wouldn't exist.

By: emma

emma — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:06:42 +0000

Your mother sounds exactly like mine. As a single parent, in a not so well paying job she always got me everything I needed and just like you, piano lessons, art supplies, books, and so on.

And still she was tough enough to teach me how to take care of myself whatever happened.

But boy, do I have a lot to learn...

By: Lex

Lex — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:19:11 +0000

My dad taught me, "Don't get caught." (Not explicitly; in our family it was all about the subtext.)

So, mostly, I didn't. And when I did, it was because I'd weighed the odds and decided that the potential payoff was worth the potential penalty. Whereas when my brothers got caught, it was because sh*t just sort of happened. Indeed, my youngest brother must have the worst luck of any man in the Western Hemisphere.

We laugh about it. Most of it, anyway. Now, anyway.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:09:57 +0000

Tylenol PM does the same thing to me. I don't want to sound like a commercial but the occasional over the counter sleep aid is damn therapeutic. You do get really introspective. I'm no Timothy Leary, but would the world be better if we all got consistantly introspective?

michael