Just a quick one this evening.
I have a feeling that I may have a mild yet strange form of obsessive compulsive disorder. I’ll do my best to describe it to you.
I want to fix people. I don’t mean have them stretch out on a couch while I ask them how they feel about what happened when they were little and in the care of a not-so-with-it adult. It’s just the little things I want to fix. Prime example: When I see someone talking on their phone in a manner which resembles them actually having a close-range conversation phone itself – you know the guy I mean, holding the phone at a short distance from his face, yelling into it and wondering why he’s struggling to hear – I feel hugely compelled to run up to them and duct tape the phone to their ear. Excuses like “phones cause brain tumors” and “I find it more comfortable” are meaningless. If you feel that strongly about it, don’t buy a mobile phone.
Ditto the guy who is driving slowly in the right hand lane; I feel that it is my one and only mission to gently side swipe them off the road and inform them that they are doing it all wrong. If you drive like a pansy, stick to the left hand lane so that others may pass. This is what those massive signs on the side of the road mean when they say “Keep left unless overtaking.” Don’t take it as a suggestion, take it as an unwritten law.
This seems ridiculous, I know. I also realise that there is no way for me to justify an argument like “This is the right way to use a mobile phone”. What I am trying to convey is less that these people are making small mistakes or doing things in a way I think is incorrect and is more that I find myself utterly frustrated and quite ready to explode when someone is, well, doing it wrong! It’s not really the act of doing it wrong, either. I want the person in question to understand what the problem is and why it exists.
This whole concept depresses me because of how horribly elitist and pompous and arrogant it sounds. I really don’t want to be that way, really! I find myself struggling, however, when people constantly use atrocious grammar in speech, have no respect for their elders or compassion for those not as well off, constantly debilitate life for those around them and are either too stubborn or ignorant to change.
I don’t even have a good way of finishing off this post – I haven’t found the solution! I have found solutions, but not the right one.
I’m leaning towards option c: Shut up, stop being immature and get on with life.
