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[jducoeur]

Note to self: stop being so damned negative.

I was reminded again yesterday of something I've been noticing all year: somewhere along the line, I picked up a habit of complaining about minor stuff, out of habit more than anything else. I think it's a leftover from the depression of the past couple of years, but it's neither especially useful nor healthy. As a matter of mental hygiene, that's a habit well worth losing...

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[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Differential diagnosis:
(a) Patient is getting older.
(b) Condition may be communicable variety. You may have caught it from others you know, such as myself -- see above %^S.

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in"
--- Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

[jducoeur]

(a) Patient is getting older.

Undoubtedly part of it, yes. It's only in the past few years that I've been even remotely aware of my age at a gut level -- previous to that, I've always been very young internally. A succession of events slammed me with awareness of age and mortality, and that's gotten rather under my skin. Now I need to figure out how to push that to the background...