Thursday, July 31, 2008

July 31st, 2008

This, my dear, is pessimism.
Pessimism in it's highest form... which anyone with any degree of activity going on upstairs would know isn't very high at all.
Pessimism at it's finest, which you can still hardly qualify as "fine".
It's really a word game, see?
Pessimism at it's highest is really you at your lowest,
and pessimism at it's finest is really you at your worst.

It's just a way to take the "you" out of the sentance, trying to hide the fact that you are in a low frame of mind. Taking the "you" out makes it very much more acceptable to society, keeps out awkward silences and the uncomfortable feelings such ideas place on the ones you're sharing your troubles with.

Refering to it like an object, as the word "pessimism" does, redirects the attention off of you by more or less diffusing the whole effect of whatever you are about to share to the other person. It neutralizes the whole emotion, going from "I am" to "It is". Going from "this is what I'm feeling" to something more acceptable in some way I do not entirely understand. It's really making the subject entirely more objective than subjective.

And I really have no idea why I went off on any of that.
Or even if any of that made any sense.
I suppose it's just an off day.