***Pet peave from hell-People who take their bad day and/or bad mood out on others (It's one thing to blog about it. It's a whole different issue to personally go off on another.)
**Another pet peave-People who are in a certain mood and/or are carrying a certain attitude/feeling of the moment, even for the day, and think that everyone else should conform to the same or get condemned for not doing so
People who do either or both of the above, yet call others idiosyncratic or eccentric, even neurotic for doing the exact same thing but during a different time frame
People who know they have a problem, even admit they have a problem, but still allow the problem to grow and do nothing about it (This one I will never understand-They actually made it past step 1, so the rest shouldn't be so bad....at least one would think not.)
People who say "I'm only human" (even if it's implied well enough), but treat others as if they should be superhuman
People who say "I wouldn't want to offend anyone", but it's in fact THEY who are offended (Doesn't have to be political)
People with the attitude of 'Don't do as I do, just do as I say.' (Don't we have stereotypical southern cops for this?)
***If I have represented any of the above to anyone recently (who knows me personally), speak up and I'm serious. That way, I can not only apologize but also acknowledge my shortcomings to myself and to you, then begin working to overcome them. I'm not looking to sit here and bitch. I really am looking to better myself as I go. I can't do it for anyone else, but I certainly can do it for myself and hope to continue doing better. It's part of self-maintenance within mental health....even when there is mostly a lack thereof.
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