Atalist's Dungeon

It hits me like a sack of bricks sometimes. You know the type, you are going about your day, enjoying the little things, and then, out of nowhere someone shows up who just pisses all over your day like you are the reason everything has ever gone wrong in their lives and they just do it to cut you down and not only you but your children. I ran into this today. I was infuriated and it made me connect to the fact that I have been angry, angrier than I should be for some time now. I have been surviving a lot of narcissistic personalities, where it is always me who is the one that is hurting, ostracizing or being the villain. These people will never take responsibility for their actions, nor should I expect them to. It is such a weird state to live in and yet, they are out there. I made a couple of calls this week, not because I was obligated but because I felt the need to reach out to people that I had a genuine concern for and the response was simply, thank you for your call, but you h...

I am sitting here at home, my children fast asleep and I wonder about the world and the impending doom that seems to linger. Go in public and see people, risk a deadly respiratory illness that has no cure. Therefore, we hide. We hide in the shadows and in our homes. We make preparations and shut down everything in the wake of this plague and we endure. Well, enduring tests your mettle. The grit to survive and we are species that learns, at least genetically to survive. We are fighting and doing everything we can to survive this. We have learned from our forebears and those who have dealt with this previously to handle this situation. Although, some don't look at the history of our world with any modicum of seriousness or respect. It happened to them because they were ill-equipped we say, they did not have the technology, they did not have our minds and yet, here we are. It is happening again in another era and there are places and people that are making the same mistakes. I like ...