Stress Terminal

[nfotxn]

Sometimes when I am very tired and burnt out from work I write with my razor tongue. And it's not that I don't agree with my own ideas or opinions. But it's then that I forget to play the game of diplomacy and lick wounds already gaping. I'd rather people listen to what I have to say, so I'll try to stop that trend.

I thank you all for listening to me even when I am a tired, brow beaten customer service worker excising the day's stress passed on to me from perturbed customers then through my weblog and on to you. I am endlessly flattered to see that my opinion can spawn so much discussion. Although I would like to remind people to keep it respectful.

Thank you.

Comments

[bleedsdaylight.livejournal.com]

love love

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

love to love love.

[callingzero.livejournal.com]

This kinda sounds like an apology. If it takes a shiddy day at work to make you vent, then why not? I thought it was a really good post on an important topic.
And here I am, and expat, happy in Canada, and I had nothing to take personally about the post. And it's had me thinking a lot today. Thanks!

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to call you a comment whore, but now I know you were just tired and cranky. Before reading the thread, I had no idea some Canadians could be so indignant, self-righteous and self-satisfied.

I should fit right in;)

Forget the spoon, bring in the cement truck!

[digibob.livejournal.com]

Wow -- 122 comments! Aren't you the little shit stirrer? Come sit next to me!

It can be a motivational tool. Maybe Dr. Eve is right...we really do need to participate in our own recovery.

As always...mad love,
Bob

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

I think the ideas discussed in this post are just as important as the ideas discussed in the last one. :-)

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

I think it's true that it's important to have a respectful tone if one wants others to listen. Kudos on realizing this.

[bigreddee.livejournal.com]

New reader here...I signed on not only because I loved what you wrote in your last post, but your acknowledgment of how that might ruffle the feathers of those who disagree with you in this one.

Having said that, I'm thinking of moving to Canada so I can brush up on my lackluster French and cruise Mounties. ;)

[abearius.livejournal.com]

What gives you the right to be a brow-beaten checkout clerk when people in the United States are offended by the very exisence of other countries? You should be living in dire poverty so that we can save you by privatizing your timber industry, or living under a politically oppressive regime so that we can help your economy by selling police and military supplies to your government. But NOOOOOO! You have the crazy notion that you can have a job, and an education, and that you can criticize The United States of America and get away with it!

Really! *harumph* The nerve! How dare you be free? How DARE you?

[teddyb.livejournal.com]

What you wrote was a bit harsh, but not without a lot of truth to it.

I never planned to stay in Canada, but I have come to love my adopted country very much. And though I never thought it could happen, the last few years have sometimes made me want to turn my back on my homeland.

I can see how frustrated Americans (and after the last election, some equally frustrated and dejected Australians) might look to Canada as a progressive place to which to retreat.

But I am still a patriotic American, in the sense of the patriots who in 1776 risked everything to give the ideals of freedom and justice and democracy a new place to grow.

I cannot give up on my homeland. So, I keep fighting for change, to see America return to a commitment to social justice for all, and freedom that includes freedom to dissent.

I wrote a bit about it in my journal tonight.

And tonight, I am voting. I just received my absentee ballot, and it feels so good to be able to cast my ballot for a better America.


LOL And no, I am not unaware of the irony that I now live in the nation founded in part by the people who left the United States in opposition to those patriots of 1776. I'll have a Laura Secord chocolate later to celebrate casting my ballot. *grin*