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you know those moments where you are completely and utterly thrilled about something?

the moments of victory or that sense of accomplishment?

have you ever looked around at the other people and wondered, "why the heck aren't you so excited?"

well, the obvious answer is that they are not going through the same thing you are... sure they can be excited for you because you are excited, but they will not feel what you are feeling because the experience is uniquely your own.

once in a while, you will get that guy who will put you down, because - from your perspective, he is a jerk.

every so often, you will put yourself down because you just do... no one likes disappointment, so if you keep yourself depressed, there really, you don't have too far to fall.

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I have often thought about other people's perspectives...

unfortunately for me, I have only done it on those occasions were I am not feeling selfish...

when I'm feeling selfish, I really don't give a hoot about other people...

[don't think at me like that - that's what selfish means... duh.]

I think, "what would make someone say something like that?" why would they tear you down so fast?

it's funny, because when you think about that - although happy outburts are usually acceptable public displays, to someone with a different set of life experiences can completely be offended by it...

since unhappy public displays are usually ignored or people frown upon them, when a person who has been exposed to a happy display, they feel that their happy display is intruding on their own feelings and that person speaks out...

I guess, proper etiquette demands polite society - which means that overly happy displays and the opposite are frowned upon in general.

but that would also include public displays of affection...

but it's all a cultural thing...

I say, if someone can be happy outloud, why can't someone be sad outload?

people are going to be annoyed either way, but because happy is more acceptable than sad, people allow the happy and piss on the sad...

I think we as a society are feelingists...

people need the range of emotion in order to be a complete person, because without the opposites, there is no comparison, and without comparison there is only expectation and that leads to disappointment, so eventually it will all come around...

the longer you stay on one side of the spectrum the harder it will hit you on the otherside.

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all that being said.

there is the struggle between wanting to do the right thing and being complacent.

because one is definitely easier than the other.