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Feb. 5th, 2005 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elvendolla last minute change to last night's plans turned into an evening so nice that the memories of having been stressed in the pre-planning of it aren't really registering on the radar. yum.
i think it's kind of sad that i need drastic shifts to let go of the work-stress i'm carrying around these days. even sadder is that i think i've slipped into a bad loop with it, and my confidence about being able to snap out of it soonsoonsoon is a bit shaky. (can we have spring, now, please?)
when i was 7 or 8, my mom randomly picked up the truffle i was eating and took a bite out of it while i watched. she then saw me looking, and started chastising me for being greedy and not wanting her to have some of my candy. it really struck me, because i hadn't felt that at all, but denying it didn't convince my mom. from that point on, and up until a couple of years ago (when i reminded my mom of the incident) i made a point of averting my eyes whenever she was taking something from my plate. unsurprisingly, my mom didn't remember the incident, while i count it as one of the more traumatic memories of my childhood that had left me paranoid for years.
my question is - what do you do if you've been misinterpreted because of an action that is involuntary/not conscious?
update: i think i found an answer, but feedback is still welcome : )
and, on a related note, it seems that i'm hard to read. do you have any thoughts on what about me makes me hard to read?
i think it's kind of sad that i need drastic shifts to let go of the work-stress i'm carrying around these days. even sadder is that i think i've slipped into a bad loop with it, and my confidence about being able to snap out of it soonsoonsoon is a bit shaky. (can we have spring, now, please?)
when i was 7 or 8, my mom randomly picked up the truffle i was eating and took a bite out of it while i watched. she then saw me looking, and started chastising me for being greedy and not wanting her to have some of my candy. it really struck me, because i hadn't felt that at all, but denying it didn't convince my mom. from that point on, and up until a couple of years ago (when i reminded my mom of the incident) i made a point of averting my eyes whenever she was taking something from my plate. unsurprisingly, my mom didn't remember the incident, while i count it as one of the more traumatic memories of my childhood that had left me paranoid for years.
my question is - what do you do if you've been misinterpreted because of an action that is involuntary/not conscious?
update: i think i found an answer, but feedback is still welcome : )
and, on a related note, it seems that i'm hard to read. do you have any thoughts on what about me makes me hard to read?
