David Vienna's Blog, page 48
December 13, 2022
tacosaysroar:Why are Christmas movies for grownups always...
Why are Christmas movies for grownups always about falling in love?
December 12, 2022
Libertarians: Let the free market decide.Libertarians Aft...
Libertarians: Let the free market decide.
Libertarians After Getting Called Out By The Free Market: What is this woke hippie bullshit?
neuroticdad:4 complaints & 1 question
ComplaintsThe d...
4 complaints & 1 question
Complaints
The dumbest people have way too much influenceBeen waiting for months to years for responseson my short storiesMy bones hurt from COVIDMy kid hates school and he resists all attempts to help him work through itQuestion
What’s the next song I should cover badly? First response wins. (Or maybe “wins”)
December 9, 2022
Jethro Tull walked so Lizzo could run.
Jethro Tull walked so Lizzo could run.
December 8, 2022
luulapants:
My dad and I once had a disagreement over him...
My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
I said, “That’s just not true. Sometimes what doesn’t kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized.”
He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, “It’s like wood glue.”
He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, “Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?”
I did.
“But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn’t hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we’d never fixed them at all. You’ve got to give these things time to set.”
It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that’s not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.
So my dad and I agreed, what doesn’t kill you doesn’t actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn’t made you stronger than you were before, you’re probably not done healing. You’ve got to give these things time to set.
