Today, I have sympathised.
Our kitchen is a tip. None of it is my mess. I eat my cereal, morn, noon and night and leave the rest up to them. If you want to burn pasta and rice in the same day in different pans and leave the burnt-on pans for three days without washing them properly, go ahead, sure, I don't care. I'll chop around the ever-growing pile of dirty dishes, rinse the knife and board and go on my merry way. I am quite a messy person by nature, but I'm not dirty, and I don't tend to be too inconsiderate. Safe in the knowledge that I'm not the one who is putting other people out, I do what I will and leave it at that.
Anyone who knows me will appreciate that I'm not the most easy going of people, so it's not that I can't understand getting wound up by the little things. To be honest, I'm a little fed-up of having to sympathise, when I should be learning to synthesise instead. We meet up for a revision session and it's constant complaints. Oh, for goodness sake, it's not that bad. It's not like you're living in complete squaller, with rodents roaming everywhere and mould growing on surfaces - it's just a bit of mess. I know it's annoying when people don't pull their weight, and it's hard to let that kind of inconsiderate behaviour just go unremarked upon, especially if you don't feel up to confronting the people involved. But for the moment, we all have exams, and maybe, just maybe I'd like to focus on that rather than the same old problems over and over and over again.
Our kitchen is a tip. None of it is my mess. I eat my cereal, morn, noon and night and leave the rest up to them. If you want to burn pasta and rice in the same day in different pans and leave the burnt-on pans for three days without washing them properly, go ahead, sure, I don't care. I'll chop around the ever-growing pile of dirty dishes, rinse the knife and board and go on my merry way. I am quite a messy person by nature, but I'm not dirty, and I don't tend to be too inconsiderate. Safe in the knowledge that I'm not the one who is putting other people out, I do what I will and leave it at that.
Anyone who knows me will appreciate that I'm not the most easy going of people, so it's not that I can't understand getting wound up by the little things. To be honest, I'm a little fed-up of having to sympathise, when I should be learning to synthesise instead. We meet up for a revision session and it's constant complaints. Oh, for goodness sake, it's not that bad. It's not like you're living in complete squaller, with rodents roaming everywhere and mould growing on surfaces - it's just a bit of mess. I know it's annoying when people don't pull their weight, and it's hard to let that kind of inconsiderate behaviour just go unremarked upon, especially if you don't feel up to confronting the people involved. But for the moment, we all have exams, and maybe, just maybe I'd like to focus on that rather than the same old problems over and over and over again.
Hate is an interesting concept. You have to feel some kind of passion to hate. It may be that I've blocked memories, but at least for this moment in time, I can't say there's anyone I truly hate. Hence, it's hard to empathise when someone is getting so worked up about someone, how they wish he were dead, why doesn't he just fuck off and stop being so annoying? I get annoyed, quite easily. But such hatred involves inputting an awful lot of energy into something that is less than beneficial and doesn't help the situation at all, so just chill a little? Ha, this may seem somewhat hypocritical, as I do know oh too well, that it's not so easy to just let go.
On the jukebox: Corinne Bailey Rae ~ Put Your Records On
Your Chemistry friend (I assume?) is probably fed up of feeling the need to complain about it over and over and over again. Yes, living with a dirty, cluttered kitchen isn't the worst of problems in life, but my, it can get to you! My kitchen-related stress, thankfully, has actually improved with exams but I think if it hadn't I'd be through the roof by now. It's my Chem Caf' friends who take the brunt. Even though they will never read this, I apologise!
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All I can say is...
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headtwin ;o)
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