She wanted so badly to tell Miss Gulch what she really thought of her, but couldn’t bring herself to do it.
I can relate.
Here are a few things that have swirled in my head over the years about people who resemble Grendel:
"You emotionless, black hearted, greedy, evil prick."
Me - "Only the good die young." Them - "What do you mean by that?" Me - "That you're alive and my mom is dead."
"You were obviously suffering from decision fatigue when you chose your wife."
"You are a bastard, and you work for the antichrist, and you decorate with demons."
Them - "What effing charm school did you go to?" Me - "I didn't need to go to charm school. That's for snakes like you."
"The more you drink, the more your monologues are marathons of hari kari inducing boredom."
"If stupidity was a disease, you would have been dead 60 years ago."
"You're not a family. You're an immune system suppressant."
At funerals, I never understand when people say that the deceased “never had a bad word to say about anybody.” I’ve never met anyone who was deserving of endless praise. I guess all the anger towards the idiots those people met in life just got buried into passive-aggressive rage. So nice on the outside, but so toxic within from unexpressed anger.
We are all products of our mental circuitry. Too bad some people didn’t get better electricians.
June 11, 2020 at 2:04 pm
Who is Grendel? Is Auntie Em from Wizard of Oz? You’ve never met anyone who was deserving of endless praise? How about endless hostility? Good thing we have expiry dates!