Today I was messaged by a man (or at least someone I presume was a man), whilst logged onto Second Life and informed that I "have problems".
Now there's a surprise. Like I haven't heard that one before.
Had I have replied angrily, no doubt the 'gentleman' would have used this as ammunition in his argument in favour of my mental instability, so I calmly replied, "I am well aware, thankyou".
After thirty seconds or so of quiet contemplation, I mustered up the courage to ask the polite 'young' chap why he would IM someone to tell them they have problems. Presumably, I have had 'problems' for the vast majority of my life, given that he was able to psychoanalyse me in a minutes flat, so I didn't understand the reasoning behind this.
Did he really think I was oblivious to the fact that I was a mental nutter and needed some random stranger to inform me of such?
I'll give you a pseudo-hypothetical situation to illustrate where I am going with this...
Say I am a skinny person in real life (which I actually am), and I was sitting at a train station minding my own business, when a stranger approaches me out the blue and says out loud, "excuse me, but you are fat".
Now, if I believe I am skinny, and some stranger comes up and informs me that in actual fact, I am obese, how would he expect me to react?
One would assume I'd either a) laugh and call him an idiot or b) tell him to fuck off and still call him an idiot.
But, lets say for instance, I was actually a fat person who somehow was deluded enough to believe that I was inactual fact, skinny and the same situation occured. Would I react any differently? I think not.
It would still probably be either a) or b).
So again I pose the question, what did this guy (whom I spoke with today) really think he had to gain by claiming such a thing?
Was he trying to provoke a strong adverse reaction? This would infact suggest to me that he is as nutty as me.
Yes, he got it right. I am crazy. But why tell a crazy person such a thing? I wasn't hurting anyone. I was just minding my own business in the guise of Fart Frequency (my SL avatar's name), swivelling my hips around in a promiscious manner and wearing a semi-naked picture of me in real life as an attachment to my avatar's right arm.
It was an adult sim...so what was wrong with that?
Could it be that he himself, has problems and is just trying to connect with other people he suspects also have problems, so we can exchange stories of fantasies involving pillowcases, duct-tape and delusions of grandeur based on a fucking computer game?
Me thinks so. That's got to be it.
Oh, and here's the funny part.
He then said to me, "I'm just trying to help you!!"
Really?
Never, and I repeat NEVER tell a crazy person that they are crazy. This cannot possibly be of any benefit whatsoever. They will either :
a) get angry and throw a knife inbetween your eyes because it can't possibly be so. Afterall, its the whole world that is crazy! OR...
b) Clam up and not tell you a god damned thing anyway OR...
c) Giggle out loud and proceed to explain to the imaginary person standing beside them that some random fucktard just accused them of being crazy. How DARE they...
I think I need to start writing novels. You know, the 'pick-a-path's where you can either wind up holidaying in Malibu with a tall handsome stranger or being buried alive as punishment for breaking off an engagement, depending on how well you analyse the choices offered to you. Usually, what seems like a good option lands you in the shit (or at least thats my experience).
Speaking of fat and skinny people, I was doing alot of thinking on my drive to University today (I know it doesn't happen often...the thinking part I mean).
Anyway, here I go off on a tangent. Bear with me here...
Our nation (I'm speaking globally here) needs to wisen the fuck up on our attitudes regarding maintaining a good weight, losing weight, gaining it and exercise.
You fuckwits have it completely wrong. Not me...you. you, YOU!
Its not your body that needs to change. Its your thinking. Its a complete and utter mindshift.
Bigger people should not be 'thinking skinny'. Thinking skinny involves gym memberships, marathon running, copious amounts of exercise, sickly sweet energy drinks and lettice leaves in between water crackers.
Think HEALTHY.
Thinking skinny is NOT maintainable over the long term. It just isn't. I speak from personal experience on this one.
Thinking healthy involves not seeing exercise as a chore. Thinking healthy involves finding ways to incorporate what we call 'exercise' into your everyday routine and not even thinking about it. It becomes gospel if you do it enough.
Thinking healthy involves eating what you want, when you want...but you only will want to eat when you genuinely get the hunger-signal.
If you do these things, I swear on my saggy left tit that your life will change for the better.
I am passionate about this because I am studying Healthcare in Australia as a subject at Uni, and obesity is a global epidemic. Its out of control, yet we're all more aware of the benefits of exercise and healthy eating that we ever have been.
I've been there, done that. I USED to be fat. I used to yo-yo. I too, used to be caught up in the fat vs thin mindset and thats why I continued to fail, again and again. I want to help other people to succeed and just 'be'. Its not a challenge. Its who you naturally are meant to be.
Enjoy life. Love yourself and love others. Laugh a little. Don't take yourself or anyone else too seriously, at least not for too long because tomorrow you'll wake up to a completely new day. Either that, or (as some perhaps wise asshole once said to me), you'll wake up dead.
Again, it all vectors back to the topic at hand. LIVE.IN.THE.MOMENT...and enjoy it :)
XxxXxxX
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