Things I Hate

(almost typed "Thongs" ... don't hate those)

Arguing about the situation here with people who aren't here...

...and yet I do it so much.

The Monday morning quarterback attitude...

...and now I know how quarterbacks feel.

Letting myself get really frustrated and upset over the former two...

...and yet I'm much better than I used to be about these things.

Superior attitudes...

...and yet I know I've got to be guilty of that myself. (Probably why I hate it so much, huh?)

I almost included the sorts of people who demonstrate these things, but then I realized that I really don't actually hate the people themselves. I know I could get along just fine with the people if it weren't for those attitudes... and I'm sure that my own attitude has plenty to do with why I can't get along with those people. Sometimes I think I should just leave well enough alone... and sometimes I think I've been put on this Earth to argue with such people... and other times entirely I feel like I need to figure out a way to accept quietly their outrageous wrongheadedness... and I know people feel the same way about me. Ahem. So I'm not sure what to do, because arguing is in my blood. And nothing, really, stirs me to argue more than people who have formed opinions about stuff that I know very well that doesn't jive with the facts I can see pretty clearly.

So what do I do? I already avoid a certain (growing) number of topics, especially when it boils down to a simple difference of viewpoint (be it heartfelt belief or whatever). But especially with this... especially in one particular forum... I know I'm the only person in that forum on the ground here, the only who has been here, in fact, and I can't help but feel that there's something actually morally wrong with not speaking my mind, against the burgeoning tide of negativity, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Suggestions appreciated, even if I may argue with them. ;)