Not All Singing, All Dancing

[nfotxn]

I had a huge fight with my brother tonight. It was of course over something incredibly petty and stupid. And yet it turned into another one of our athletic and inflamitory debate fests. I was actually driven to tears because I realized that really this entire altercation had lots to do with the stress both of us were keeping. Of course it was not until this point that the tone of discussion returned to something more humane. He gave me a hug, wiped my tears and we talked. Those skeletons truly weighing heavy on our minds released. Just silly things that really don't matter (too much) like time and money.

And then at dinner the smell of the BBQ, a fresh and unseasonably cool August evening and the taste of my banana heightened to a near feeling of synesthesia. That is to say that in my life eating is just so very related to stress. And that the effects of adrenalin are potent, especially in our sendentary and indulged lives as the supposed "post-modern" or whatever term our lives today are to be quantified under.

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[keanubear.livejournal.com]

I had this huge fight (discussion) with my sister this past july when I went back to Jersey to see my folks. It was over something kinda silly, but about halfway thru it dawned on me that we really were not arguing about anything "now", we were arguing about stuff that happened way way "then", and that those feelings just never got worked thru for some reason.

Luckily we ended our "discussion" with laughter.

Don't even get me started on food/stress/emotions.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

As crappy as arguements are I've got to say I almost always feel better when they are over. Problems always find a way to bubble to the surface no matter how much they are ignored or even forgotten.

I think as far as having a vice to rely on when you're stressed I'm glad to be bedfellows with food and music. So really music AND food are my boyfriends ;) Bettter than, say, crack and cigarettes.

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

Well, have you tried crack and cigarettes? heheh, just kidding.

Food as a vice can cause problems. It took me a long time to come to grips with my emotions and the effect that had on my eating, and now I have a gym membership that I never use, and the knowledge that I have to lose a lot of weight.

But food is yummy after all.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I had my flirtation with cigarettes. Ok it was more of a short term relationship and we have since parted company on amicable terms.

As for gym memberships, they are also not a vice without rammifications. It's much easier to become a carb/calorie/fat counting mirror fiend than I think most people imagine. Especially when the mirror agrees with you. Not to say that I don't approve of feeling and looking good. It's just that a vice, at least in my life, indicates an imbalance and an unacknowledged or realized feeling about that something. But I could rant on about the human condition until the cows come home.

[goofybearz.livejournal.com]

At least you settled it, Give me and my brother more than 48 hours together and we're going at it. We're just too different I guess. He is as much into Football as I am into music. Different Fathers, different attitudes I guess.

[fenwalker.livejournal.com]

Whew. For a second there I thought your fight with your brother was going to have a different ending. A more homoerotic ending. You're Candian after all, and Canda is responsible for the morale decay of the world. I mean... that's what the Catholics say...

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I would argue that your lack of assumption of a platonic love for my brother is further moral decay beyond any homoerotic ends.

[fenwalker.livejournal.com]

There's no moral decay over here in the States. We have plenty of flouride toothpaste. Oh wait, that's molar decay. I got nothing.

[fredneckteddy.livejournal.com]

sorry you quarreled, glad you made up, can I taste your banana? ;)

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
A few weeks ago I told my sister to either get out or find another housemate, I was leaving. Similar to your resolution, it involved a lot of kleenex on my part, (and a call to my mom to calm me down).
I'm glad you were able to resolve things, sometimes it just needs a good argument.

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you guys made up so nicely.

[http://users.livejournal.com/speedy_/]

Congratulation to you both on finding a way to work things out, it is not easy sometimes. He wipping your tears was a very kind gesture.

[jbear70.livejournal.com]

Much of the time my fights with Ron are over minor things that become more than they really need to be. I guess that's human nature sometimes. It's good that you guys talked it through. That's really the key.