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"Oh no, not again."
"Oh no, not again."
Writer's Block: Go it alone
9 Dec 2009 10:54 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
"How does social pressure happen?"
and
"If you perceive social pressure, what do you do?"
and
"Do you have ways to defend against uncomfortable social pressure? What are they?"
( but I answer the questions anyway )
Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children? Do you think this ostracizes people who would be perfectly content to remain single and/or child-free? Is this pressure worse around the holidays?More interesting questions:
"How does social pressure happen?"
and
"If you perceive social pressure, what do you do?"
and
"Do you have ways to defend against uncomfortable social pressure? What are they?"
( but I answer the questions anyway )
Writer's Block: Nature or nurture
28 Oct 2009 05:16 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Embrace the power of "and".
(I know that these Writers Block questions are supposed to stimulate writing, but so many of them are yes/no or "this/that" questions or I'm tempted to start challenging myself to answer them in as few characters as possible. If this one were part of the challenge, my answer would have been "and".)
Embrace the power of "and".
(I know that these Writers Block questions are supposed to stimulate writing, but so many of them are yes/no or "this/that" questions or I'm tempted to start challenging myself to answer them in as few characters as possible. If this one were part of the challenge, my answer would have been "and".)
[Error: unknown template qotd] Part of my mind immediately goes to something like "I wish I had a great creation I could point to as my important contribution to the world." I don't have one. Part of me feels like a failure because I don't.
On the other hand, I have set up my life so that I contribute in a bunch of little ways on a regular basis to the part of the world immediately around me—my family, friends, partners, community, political activism, homeless animals, work. Those contributions don't get noticed in the world at large, but I do get ongoing pleasure and satisfaction out of contributing in that way, and I seem to strongly want to have that sort of ongoing satisfaction.
So I guess those little contributions would count as the good stuff I've done.
(via <lj user=serenejournal>)
On the other hand, I have set up my life so that I contribute in a bunch of little ways on a regular basis to the part of the world immediately around me—my family, friends, partners, community, political activism, homeless animals, work. Those contributions don't get noticed in the world at large, but I do get ongoing pleasure and satisfaction out of contributing in that way, and I seem to strongly want to have that sort of ongoing satisfaction.
So I guess those little contributions would count as the good stuff I've done.
(via <lj user=serenejournal>)
[Error: unknown template qotd] Part of my mind immediately goes to something like "I wish I had a great creation I could point to as my important contribution to the world." I don't have one. Part of me feels like a failure because I don't.
On the other hand, I have set up my life so that I contribute in a bunch of little ways on a regular basis to the part of the world immediately around me—my family, friends, partners, community, political activism, homeless animals, work. Those contributions don't get noticed in the world at large, but I do get ongoing pleasure and satisfaction out of contributing in that way, and I seem to strongly want to have that sort of ongoing satisfaction.
So I guess those little contributions would count as the good stuff I've done.
(via <lj user=serenejournal>)
On the other hand, I have set up my life so that I contribute in a bunch of little ways on a regular basis to the part of the world immediately around me—my family, friends, partners, community, political activism, homeless animals, work. Those contributions don't get noticed in the world at large, but I do get ongoing pleasure and satisfaction out of contributing in that way, and I seem to strongly want to have that sort of ongoing satisfaction.
So I guess those little contributions would count as the good stuff I've done.
(via <lj user=serenejournal>)
