Sinergy -> RE: "House Rules" - do you have any? What are they? (6/25/2007 5:04:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sinergy 1) You make a mess, you clean it up. 2) Dont like what I cooked, the kitchen is over there. 3) Need something, ask for it. I dont do mind reading. 4) Got an argument with somebody, take it outside because I dont want to have to deal with it. 4a) Make me fix your problems, I will, but odds are fairly good you will not like the solution I come up with. Sinergy I was thinking about these today while driving down in the harbor. I suppose when I extrapolate out on the concepts, I come up with rules more in keeping with WIITWD. 1) What seems to happen is people screw up. They might get upset and pick a fight. They might run the car into a pole. Whatever. The idea behind this particular "rule" is that I tend to feel when the person comes to me and asks me to fix it, I am faced with a double inconvenience. a) The person created a mess. b) The person wants me, in addition to cleaning up the mess, to figure out how to make it all better. I can do this, but part of me wonders why I would. If I am the one who steps up to fix it, I will probably feel a bit of resentment towards the person who stuck me with fixing their mess. I know I will tend to feel the person is acting rather lazy for not making the effort to fix what they have done. 2) The meaning behind this concept is I make the effort to do something. I come up with the plan. I implement the plan. I get things done. Then people object to what I did. Be this cook dinner. Buy a yellow zebra striped car. Paint the house fuschia with vermillion highlights. Whatever. Rather than add friction to my attempts to do things in my life, simply ask to take over the job so I can wander down to the beach with my surfboard. 3) This is rather self explanatory. I am not going to try to read somebodies mind. 4) In a relationship setting, I suppose this boils down to when a person decides to have issues or pick a fight, and finds me in the cross-hairs of the person to take out their issues on. I am more than willing to make suggestions, actively listen, suggest a good therapist, whatever, but what I refuse to do is be somebody else's emotional punching bag for their venting of their personal issues. 4a) Again, self explantory. Sinergy
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