This Southern Belle's Musings

This Southern Belle's Musings

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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

MMTS

I had an article published by Bad Girls Press in September of 2003 entitled"The Mysterious Mass-Transit Syndrome" as the BG-POV Column of the Month.     It was definitely written from first-hand experience, and the problem has only gotten worse.     To read a transcript of the article, you can find it here.

This happened again three times in the span of an hour Monday evening (no provocation, I was in rather a rush), and twice on Tuesday.     I don't want to appear rude but, honestly, sometimes I just don't have the time -- or really don't want to hear -- the other person's stories, especially because -- (1) don't even know the person; (2) will never see the person again; and (3) will worry about the person's situation more deeply that I should.     My life is already filled with my own problems, hectic schedules, issues, family and friends that sometimes step over reasonable boundaries, and so on.     I shouldn't be expected to take on the "weight-of-the-world" as it were, in addition to the ordinary struggles that life already brings.

I wish I could approach life with a simplistic Pollyanna view -- slipping on rose-colored glasses and meeting the world with a smile, a wink, and a freshly baked pan of cookies.     But, sadly, the world would gobble up Pollyanna and explode with a huge burp (or worse!) when it finished, and never think twice about the beauty and optimism that was just destroyed.     I'd like to be an optimist, but I have to be a realist.     That's a sad position to have to be in, isn't it?     I never expected to become this jaded.     But, I also never expected to see all of the things I've seen in my life either.

How do you -- my readers -- deal with situations such as this?

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