Fishing

Compliment fishing. Specifically, the variety of, "I'm such a failure, pity me". Now, normal fishers are hard enough to stand. Those ones want compliments, which is bad. This variety wants pity, which is worse. The point that gets me every time is that they're right: they do suck. Then why on earth are they calling all this attention to it? That's what happens when pity is asked for. It's saying, "I suck. Tell me you feel bad about me sucking, because I suck." They draw unbelievable amounts of attention toward something they claim to hate about themselves.

That's when I realized that they don't hate it, they like it. It's their way of getting attention. It's not positive attention, but it's attention, so they don't care. Pity is a wonderfully ironic form of pride. We are proud of failing, proud enough to draw attention to ourselves. It's a completely tooling move, and I hate it.

Im not saying that we shouldn't feel bad when we fail. Quite the opposite. That bad feel is a necessity for self-improvement. Failures are not meant as attention-hogging flags. Rather, they are for quiet reflection. Feel free to impart your worries on others, but don't do it in a way that'll invoke pity. Rather, use it as a resolve for improvement.

Peace out, readers.