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I know logically that lots of people don't mature past high school. They regard themselves as the main character in their own story with no understanding that they're generally at best an extra in everyone else's. I get that self-awareness is a rare and precious commodity. But after months of being home with someone else in possession of that commodity it is hard to communicate with people who need so much emotional hand holding when wrong. I've always been driven toward being a helpful and decent employee but this past week being helpful has meant picking up the slack for a team full of main characters. Being a self-aware NPC is exhausting.
Being a self-aware NPC is exhausting.
It's tough knowing you're the lead of your own story but often an extra at best in others' if not an outright villain. My own preference has always been to focus on my own life and let others worry about theirs, to spare no more thought for others than they spare for me—but such benign indifference might not suit you, or seem as benign to you as it does to me.