20th May 2004, 8:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 20th May 2004, 8:53 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Okay, allow me to make one more post. Here's the deal, YES I think it's PERFECTLY okay to at a certain point to just walk away when you don't really feel like talking about it any more and I DO expect the other person to be totally okay with it. That's how ALMOST everyone <b>I know</b> is. Guess who the exceptions are?
Anyway, I wanted to make you understand, but apparently I can't get you to do that. You really DO see a horrible problem with walking away from an argument, and until you realize it's NOT a bad thing to just walk away, I suppose you just won't get what I'm trying to say here. Didn't you ever see those after school specials where the two people are fighting about something and the mother walks in and says "what's the problem here?" and they both tell her how HORRIBLE the other person is, and then the mother, in a way that never happens in real life, but is still a perfectly valid lesson, tells them that when such things happen, it's best to walk away, and it takes more courage to know when to back down than to just keep it up. Never seen those? Also, you never did answer my query as to what you do in situations when people say "never mind" to you wanting to just end some discussion. Do you keep pestering them, or what?
Oh well, never mind (again). I'll just leave this conversation be as well. No doubt you'll be very annoyed that I would dare leave a conversation ONLY because I'm frustrated and annoyed that there's no progress at all, but so be it.
Anyway, I wanted to make you understand, but apparently I can't get you to do that. You really DO see a horrible problem with walking away from an argument, and until you realize it's NOT a bad thing to just walk away, I suppose you just won't get what I'm trying to say here. Didn't you ever see those after school specials where the two people are fighting about something and the mother walks in and says "what's the problem here?" and they both tell her how HORRIBLE the other person is, and then the mother, in a way that never happens in real life, but is still a perfectly valid lesson, tells them that when such things happen, it's best to walk away, and it takes more courage to know when to back down than to just keep it up. Never seen those? Also, you never did answer my query as to what you do in situations when people say "never mind" to you wanting to just end some discussion. Do you keep pestering them, or what?
Oh well, never mind (again). I'll just leave this conversation be as well. No doubt you'll be very annoyed that I would dare leave a conversation ONLY because I'm frustrated and annoyed that there's no progress at all, but so be it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)