Kind of Like How a Black and White Cookie is Opposites.

I’ve had kind of a shitty week. Vacation is over. I got sick on my vacation, which is its own shitty concept. Then I actually had to endure being sick. Things have been off all week at work. And I just generally haven’t felt like myself lately.

This is especially sucky coming off of a period of a few weeks where I felt really good about a lot of things and was generally pretty happy.

Which got me to thinking about how its always a good week and a bad week for someone. I mean, duh, we all know that. But isn’t kind of strange sometimes? This week is the worst week in the history of your life, and for someone else, it’s amazing. And we are all walking right along side each other while all these divergent things are going on.

And even though we all know that, how often do we actually care? I know I’m guilty of being a bit of, well… a bit of ragey.

I was telling someone recently how often it amazes me that the people in my real life who know about this blog often don’t bother to read it. I find this shocking. Not because I consider myself to be so interesting, but because I consider everything about everyone to be interesting. I love observing strangers. I read the blogs of people I will never meet, and eat up every word. If someone I know is putting their words out there for me to read? I’m going to eat it all up. I love everything there is to know about someone, anyone, and yes, that means you. The world is just so damned interesting.

But what am I really doing with all this interest? Not enough really. I find people incredibly interesting, but if the end result of that isn’t being more empathetic then what is the purpose?

I was talking to this same person, who also is going through a rough patch, and he told me that he has been acting on impulses by doing the opposite of what he used to do, hoping to effect a positive change. And I think that’s something I’d like to try. Obviously not on every impulse, but on the ones that lead me to do something that affects someone else in a negative way? Yeah, that.

That there is a Seinfeld episode about this concept only makes it more appealing.  What's the worst thing that could happen?