I’d argue that it’s even worse when they do listen to you. Then you were right all along to be angry and, if you’re of a particularly ruddy disposition as a personality, you might even find yourself blaming others for why you’re emotional and not actually free.
My ex objected once to going out in public without make-up up on. I said “you are not afraid of what people think, you are afraid that they don’t care”
Having our boss not agree, and continue to be wrong, is definitely preferable than me being right. Nothing like hating the boss for a good fix of heroic narcissism on weekday wine bender.
Richard: “I have written about traversing a barren wasteland … about needing nerves of steel whilst in durance-vile.
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Stark is a good word but it unfortunately has negative connotations – for it was seeing stark reality for the first time. I remember being fascinated, despite my qualms, and then one day it shifted through to an actuality in which the magical qualities of the intimacy of directly experiencing the actualness of my hand became apparent.”