Karmacoma

I could be watching a movie about a severely misunderstood teenager who gets involved with the wrong crowd, who makes a couple of bad decisions or goes through a traumatizing event, like being raped, and throws all their hopes and ambitions out the window and instead turns to drugs and living on the streets. Say, at some point in this movie, the kid needs a fix, so with their group of friends, they run into a lady walking down the street in the dead of night. They mug her, they beat her and render her unconcious, she's bleeding, but definitely not dead. They steal her money, or her car, or whatever else it is that they need, and then they leave her. And this character, this woman, is gone for the rest of the film.
Everyone likes to make something extravagant out of their lives. Everyone likes to relate to someone much worse off than they are. Lessons are learned by creating solutions to the new problems that present themselves on a daily basis. What I mean to say is that this teenager in the movie could, very likely, have a lot of interesting things to say, but on a more realistic level, you are the woman who was mugged.
Now here's some ranting for you.
Recently, I've seen a lot of people do some very selfish things that take a lot of effect on the people around them. Yes; this has upset me before. And although this isn't something I can't stand to be around, I more find it to be like a muscle spasm that I can't do shit about. Annoying in its own way after a while.
Take for example--
People who claim to know the secrets of manipulation on how to get into a person's head and mess with them on an emotional level.
The characters in the movie are a simple way of saying that people won't ever really know each other. Bad things happen to everyone, for no apparent reason.
You could be bringing a very bad day to rock bottom, or simply just being a downer on one of the better days.
No one spills their guts to just anyone. There's a lot of food being shoved under the table so it doesn't look like there's very much on our plates.
What happened to thinking about things before acting on them?
People will tell me exactly what I want to hear, but eventually I'll get sick of hearing what I want so often that I'll want to hear the exact opposite of what I thought I wanted in the first place. But it humors me to think that some people consider others to be that stupid.
Gradually you come to realize that all you need are good intentions.
Your perception is your reality. The way you choose to take in the things around you determines the world that you live in. I'm in your reality, and you're in mine, but they're completely different. And, yes, ultimately we're each living in our own three pound universe.