Tag: sadness

• Thinking About Quest – Thoughts from July 16, 2023

  

  I’ve become the guy who brings down the room by talking about Quest going blind. I can’t really talk about anything else because it’s the only thing on my mind. She just turned thirteen years old and I don’t know if she’s going to make it to fourteen. I tell people her age and they…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 2, 2024

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  2023, backing up data, Blaze, blind cat, cat, cats, cloudiness in her eyes, dad, don’ want her to suffer, following the sound of my voice, hard drives, kittens, mom, NAS, nerdy, nerdy stories, Network Attached Storage, older cat, older pet, Quest, Quest is blind, sadness, Scout, thinking, thinking about Quest, thirteen year old cat, thoughts, writing

• Women and Men Walking – Thoughts from October 16, 2022

  

  I was driving into work on the freeway and I saw a large white truck with a flag sticking up in the back of it. From a history of seeing flags sticking up in the back of trucks, I know they write nothing pleasant or encouraging on the flags. Sure enough, they inscribed the words…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 11, 2024

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  2022, bacon, Biden, caring about other people, dealing with death, Democrats, driving, emotions under control, existence, flying arms, freeway, hateful flag, hateful packs, hateful people, hateful person, hateful phrase, heart attack, horrible people, jerky people, keep me from hating, large white truck with a flag, loud noises, MAGA hat, men are boring to watch, men don’t move upper body, men walking, mom, mom’s death, money, not all men, not all women, outlet, Republicans, sadness, thoughts, Trump, unpleasant words, value their beliefs, women are more interesting than men, women walking, writing

• Breaking Plastic Mirrors – Thoughts from May 22 and 25, 2022

  

  May 22, 2022 Someone asked about the term “reality denier” that I use for people who deny basic realities and behave badly because of it. I use it mainly to call out people’s behavior instead of swearing at them and getting angry. It’s not a perfect term so I usually only use it when I’m…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 19, 2023

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  2022, accepting reality, anger, angry, angry decisions, anxiety, bad decisions, basic realities, behaving badly, blind to realities, broken mirror, caring about others, conscious decisions, denying realities, depression, embarrassment, emotional, emotions, empathy, funny story, hate, hatred, humor, humorous, ignoring realities, improve other people’s day, jealousy, kindness, logic, loneliness, negative emotion, negative humor, no opposite of hate, non-reality accepter, not dealing with emotions, Other People Exist, people’s behavior, plastic mirror, Reality Acceptance, reality denial, reality denier, recognition, sadness, safety, seven years bad luck, thoughts, tight spot, Truck