People Suck

Today I am frustrated with life more than I usually am.  For me it seems that people in my life are working together to suck all at once.  This post is a bitchy one...don't bother reading it...

People are weak and frustrating.  Today I am juggling higher than usual stress from my wife, my best friend (sorta, at least for the time being), my job, and life in general.  On top of this, my mood for the past few weeks as been reverting to a previous inward view resulting in a return to blunt and brutal honesty as my common methodology for communication.   However what I have found is that most people aren't prepared to handle it.

Here is my basic question.  Why is it that I can't passionately, clearly, and directly share my opinion without it being misconstrued beyond the actual words I said in the context?  When did people become so fragile that they can't handle passionate discussion?  I'm not talking about your communications with the common folk in your life, clearly to be able to open up and express your passionate opinion on a subject this requires a certain amount of love between the people.  This love should create a skin capable of weathering the storm.  Perhaps I'm built different, but I can yell, scream, and be filled with rage during a debate with someone I love, and enjoy a hug and cup of coffee moments later.  The people I love should know that I love them and regardless of how angry I appear during a discussion/debate and that fact isn't changing.  So deal with the content of  the discussion rather than allow my expression of frustration dictate your response.

I know many of you reading this would argue the opposite.  That I could be more considerate of the weak people around me and control my rage.  Which I don't necessarily disagree with except for the people closest in my life.  Those people are there by choice, being close to me is not easily done.  For these people I should be able to be myself, which at times will be a goofy fun guy to be around, and at others a rage filled anger machine who will passionately debate his opinion to the end of time.

So here is the end of my complaint, and my message to those in my life that I love.  I love you, the course of a debate or discussion will not change that fact.  Listen to what I'm saying and address that.  If you're too emotionally weak to discuss/debate with me...give up because you're going to lose if you aren't level headed and thinking clearly.  Even at my greatest state of rage, I can still think, and I'm pretty damn good at debate so  come prepared, or be prepared to concede...