Time For a Break, I Think

[pt_tangles]

From gUrl.com. I am starting to feel very under valued and unappreciated there. Right now I have two kids trying to 'out wise' me because I was excited for a girl who had finally reached the point in her path where she has to dive into the deep end or get out of the pool.

They were mad because I referred to what she had been doing these last 5 years as 'dabbling'. The truth hurts, but if she gets past that surface bump and continues on (which I am fairly sure she has - she dropped out of the conversation almost a week ago - I hate latecomers who feel the need to restir shit) , she will be glad to have had someone who didn't give her mystical bullshit answers like 'listen to your heart, you will know what to do next'.

I have had to struggle for the last several days to keep from saying, 'you know what? I am not being mean to Errapel by not feeling sorry for her. This is an exciting time that most of you will never get to.' Somehow, I think that will just make things worse.

So, instead of trying to talk sense to a bunch of kids who have decided that my knowledge is not worth listening to, I am going to leave them to themselves for a while.  Perhaps I will come back when the list of 'I need HEEEeeelllllllllllllllppppppppp!!!!1111!11' threads is back up to about a half dozen per section and there have been no responses for weeks.

Days like these are definitely the ones where I wonder why I bother to step outside of TWO at all.  If the kids want to be taught by people who don't know any more than they do, then let them bloody well find out the hard way!  Ugh!

--Phae

Comments

[purplerahk.livejournal.com]

I have had to struggle for the last several days to keep from saying, 'you know what? I am not being mean to Errapel by not feeling sorry for her. This is an exciting time that most of you will never get to.' Somehow, I think that will just make things worse.

Nope, it probably wouldn't have made it better - but that's just the kind of thing my inner bitch would want to say lol

[pt_tangles]

And yet I managed to say that without pissing anyone off. Go me!

--Phae

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem, I think, is the tendency of most young people to assume that there are (or at least, ought to be,) simple, easy answers to most of life's problems. Pointing out that this is not the case, and that most problems are resolved only after the expenditure of a significant amount of effort, seldom earns one affection or praise, regardless of the context in which one points this out.

If you would like, I can work you up a certificate stating that you are an Arrogant Elitist Bastard. Then you can sneer at their poor, puerile expressions of anger, secure in the knowledge of your own self-worth. And we have useful icons, too. (But no cookies, sad to say.)

[thtrelady.livejournal.com]

Oh and learning that there are not easy answers HURTS - so people tend to swing back at the person delivering the nasty upsetting news.

As someone who got over it eventually - thank you. Unfortunately, the person that thank you really belongs to is someone I've since lost touch with.

[pt_tangles]

Yeah. I am finding that a lot of the kids who were raised in Pagan or Pagan-friendly households come in with this HUGE chip on their shoulder thinking that they know everything about Paganism and that no one can teach them anything. They figure that 'they' are the ones to teach their peers.

I had to cringe for Lark when I watched her trying to convince this one girl that yes, Wicca is so a religion.

--Phae