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Mar. 18th, 2016 07:44 amHad a relapse yesterday, and spent half my entire time either in bed or showering off. Got better during the afternoon, but Mom bought some cough syrup from Costco that she had me take at five and also had a spoonful of after coming down ill herself. The instructions say that I'm supposed to take a spoonful every four hours, and I had one at 8:30 before going to bed, but my symptoms in general since have actually been minimal even without taking any further doses all night.
I do wish she had gotten cough drops or some kind of pill instead, though. At least drops aren't nearly so strong while still tasting the same, and pills don't taste like anything as long as you swallow them whole.
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Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision you make.
Period.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, posted to Facebook on January 8, 2013.
Actually, I had discovered the post (just) months ago, reblogged by Nancy from down the street, and that was right after Chelle had written something on Tumblr about Michel and Fuku in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch:
[Michel has] done horrible things, but he’s also like, a child soldier raised by two abusers with no social interaction outside them, no chance to form an identity outside of the lies they told him about being an amnesiac adult with a god-given destiny and the moment he started questioning them, they fed him mind-altering drugs that made him bloodthirsty and lowers his inhibitions. He’s a kid who had very limited choices, and while he is accountable to some extent, it’s absolutely not to the point of not being forgiven ever. He ended up recognizing his errors and doing what little he could to rectify it. Heck, he even admitted he’d been whiny and self-centered.
[Link removed as of 7/12/19; post is no longer viewable.]
Both posts in question got me thinking about that whole in-story situation in Cries Unheard. Mind you, I still do refuse to acknowledge the events of that particular story, but Chelle has also reblogged stuff aplenty on Tumblr about Marvel's Jessica Jones, which is in some ways very similar (Kilgrave knows how to gaslight and manipulate people, is killed at the end, Jessica is arrested but released afterwards, and if CU was done right, we'd hope that Kagami, Miyuki, and any possible others with not-so-innocent blood on their hands all get released courtesy of Yui and gain nothing but respect from the good people of their community). This whole thing is just on a what-if basis in general.
Dyer's post had attracted controversy, with those who agree saying that those who disagree are the kinds of people who make up excuses for what's wrong with their lives, while the latters label the formers as being privileged and having no idea what it's actually like to live a suck-ass life that you really can do little to improve. Just a month ago, after taking some time to draw my own conclusion, I posted the following comment to both pages, only to find out last night that Dyer had actually been dead since last August (hence why I'm writing here only now about this; would've been glad to gain his opinion on it if he were still alive):
( Read more... )
(As an aside, certain things are just slightly different from what I actually gathered before from that story, and that whole rape-comic thing is actually a reference to The Loss of Innocence, in which Kagami beats up Hiyori after learning of something she had written for titillation and advertised for Comiket (which she started to feel guilty about moments before said beating and agrees afterwards to destroy).)
I had also posted the same last two paragraphs in a comment under this Cracked article, but following only one, different opening paragraph:
As for #3, agreed in general. There is *never* an excuse to shoot up random people. However, what's particularly important to take into account there is that Cho did the MOST HEINOUS thing both out of all his options and of anyone's actions involved.
Beside the article's actual point, to be sure, but the difference between killing out of mere frustration vs out of actual necessity is another important point for people to understand, and only an asshole would tell someone like Konata that she has only herself to blame for doing as those boys told her, including acting like a dog, ( ... ) (nevermind that the only alternative would be that Yutaka gets slaughtered, and not presumably humanely either, or even becomes their next "dog" after her and Misao), or call Kagami or Miyuki out for killing a few people at all (as if their few victims themselves, without exception, hadn't already either killed, held hostage, driven to suicide, raped, or otherwise threatened such a greater number of people than they themselves formed).
(To be fair, though, those kinds of things are only common to people who live to begin with in dangerous communities such as a ghetto or a war, and when something dangerous unexpectedly does happen, it's usually not on such a scale as what was depicted in CU.)
Given how narrow-minded the quote all the way above is, here is a better link than any to conclude this entry with:
http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/responsibility.htm
I do wish she had gotten cough drops or some kind of pill instead, though. At least drops aren't nearly so strong while still tasting the same, and pills don't taste like anything as long as you swallow them whole.
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Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision you make.
Period.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, posted to Facebook on January 8, 2013.
Actually, I had discovered the post (just) months ago, reblogged by Nancy from down the street, and that was right after Chelle had written something on Tumblr about Michel and Fuku in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch:
[Michel has] done horrible things, but he’s also like, a child soldier raised by two abusers with no social interaction outside them, no chance to form an identity outside of the lies they told him about being an amnesiac adult with a god-given destiny and the moment he started questioning them, they fed him mind-altering drugs that made him bloodthirsty and lowers his inhibitions. He’s a kid who had very limited choices, and while he is accountable to some extent, it’s absolutely not to the point of not being forgiven ever. He ended up recognizing his errors and doing what little he could to rectify it. Heck, he even admitted he’d been whiny and self-centered.
[Link removed as of 7/12/19; post is no longer viewable.]
Both posts in question got me thinking about that whole in-story situation in Cries Unheard. Mind you, I still do refuse to acknowledge the events of that particular story, but Chelle has also reblogged stuff aplenty on Tumblr about Marvel's Jessica Jones, which is in some ways very similar (Kilgrave knows how to gaslight and manipulate people, is killed at the end, Jessica is arrested but released afterwards, and if CU was done right, we'd hope that Kagami, Miyuki, and any possible others with not-so-innocent blood on their hands all get released courtesy of Yui and gain nothing but respect from the good people of their community). This whole thing is just on a what-if basis in general.
Dyer's post had attracted controversy, with those who agree saying that those who disagree are the kinds of people who make up excuses for what's wrong with their lives, while the latters label the formers as being privileged and having no idea what it's actually like to live a suck-ass life that you really can do little to improve. Just a month ago, after taking some time to draw my own conclusion, I posted the following comment to both pages, only to find out last night that Dyer had actually been dead since last August (hence why I'm writing here only now about this; would've been glad to gain his opinion on it if he were still alive):
( Read more... )
(As an aside, certain things are just slightly different from what I actually gathered before from that story, and that whole rape-comic thing is actually a reference to The Loss of Innocence, in which Kagami beats up Hiyori after learning of something she had written for titillation and advertised for Comiket (which she started to feel guilty about moments before said beating and agrees afterwards to destroy).)
I had also posted the same last two paragraphs in a comment under this Cracked article, but following only one, different opening paragraph:
As for #3, agreed in general. There is *never* an excuse to shoot up random people. However, what's particularly important to take into account there is that Cho did the MOST HEINOUS thing both out of all his options and of anyone's actions involved.
Beside the article's actual point, to be sure, but the difference between killing out of mere frustration vs out of actual necessity is another important point for people to understand, and only an asshole would tell someone like Konata that she has only herself to blame for doing as those boys told her, including acting like a dog, ( ... ) (nevermind that the only alternative would be that Yutaka gets slaughtered, and not presumably humanely either, or even becomes their next "dog" after her and Misao), or call Kagami or Miyuki out for killing a few people at all (as if their few victims themselves, without exception, hadn't already either killed, held hostage, driven to suicide, raped, or otherwise threatened such a greater number of people than they themselves formed).
(To be fair, though, those kinds of things are only common to people who live to begin with in dangerous communities such as a ghetto or a war, and when something dangerous unexpectedly does happen, it's usually not on such a scale as what was depicted in CU.)
Given how narrow-minded the quote all the way above is, here is a better link than any to conclude this entry with:
http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/responsibility.htm