Sunday, April 09, 2006
i am starting to have anger management issues (seriously) because of the frequency with which people ask for money (during the day) and for my name and number (at night). i feel like a prisonner afraid to leave my apartment alone (no matter what time of day)! these people don't take no for an answer, they are easily insulted, and they act as though this is an expectation or something that i owe them! it is getting really hard not to try to avoid all strangers just to be safe! in fact, how does one expect a person to react to a stranger approaching them in the first place? i try to keep an open mind (maybe they need directions or a little money), but a person's attention and personal space belongs to them until they grant you the privilege of sharing that, and i am always willing to do that with the decent people of the world who understand that, stranger or not. how and when did people start getting so confused?madame le professeur at 5:17 PM
