Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: oldernow Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc Subject: Anxiety Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:01:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: Reply-To: xyz001@nym.hush.com Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:01:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2623f1e886ccb6208f18d8cb705c6b7c"; logging-data="1058259"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186Eox4DanxkK5Kut1C4fcDLEcdjCdpafo=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qQ2fq82DsAHr6bfR9o61Qbkvpzs= Bytes: 1252 My anxiety in communication is rooted in dreading confusion and/or misunderstanding - somehow usually expressed in the most callous of ways - over what could be so wonderful were it not for the seeming inevitability of such. Is there self-fulfilling prophesy to it? No doubt. But I don't know how to un-see/un-know Murphy's Law, or how believe the opposite sufficiently dilligently to seemingly "make it so". -- oldernow xyz001 at nym.hush.com