The Eclectic Atma

"..people have the tendency to dump on you." --  Simon and Garfunkel (The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine)

me in MS paint

No matter how hard you try to improve yourself to be a better person,  there are still those people who can provoke our day to day moods without even trying that hard.

Each day we condition ourselves not to pick a random fight with anyone or not make an issue out of a stupid comment from your workmates or peers. However, as much as we don't care whether they got the latest scoop of gossip around the place or if they won the lottery there are those certain people who get easily pushes the right button to immediately swell up our mood.

 Friends, best friends and significant others are on top of the list.  They simply push the swing and then our mood goes roller coaster, all the resolution of being a better person crumbles and we grumble instead. We find ourselves back at ground zero. The hardest thing is sometimes these people won't even know what they've done to your sane self. One minute you are smiling brightly the next your in the corner lurking and near in tears.  So how do you resolve such thing?

Sometimes I tell myself to act detached. It's better that way at least you don't get mood swings that often.  But it devoids  you of feelings. It's like switching off that human button, being passive, non existent for some time until you can carefully walk again with a good face. That's how I cope, but would that be right? Perhaps I need one of those Big Bright Green Pleasure Machines S and G kept singing about. I need a brain neutralizer. Well, I still have to discover.