{"id":19,"date":"2008-04-19T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T03:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/good-grief\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:49:59","slug":"good-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Good Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

I believe I can make a difference outside of my four walls; so much good within my reach. I’m on the mailing list for ONE.org<\/a> to stop kicking poor nations while they’re down. I live 3 blocks away from the local Food & Care Coalition<\/a>. I tip generously if they don’t scowl and mutilate voodoo dolls in front of me at restaurants. I refrain from flashing the international “You’re number .1.” hand signal on the freeway when just edging behind and clipping the corner of their bumper will do. I cheer up my neighbor dog because he obviously doesn’t get much love. And I’m now sharing just the thumping bass register of my new stereo with my upstairs neighbor.<\/p>\n

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So it’s time for to me own up to my omissions and to feel guilty about all that I do other than actively making a positive effect in the world. Not only do I push around emails for a living, on my own time I squander my talents and good health on movies, video games, and music. I can’t even squander myself on genuinely destructive things to really live it up. I have so much teeming misanthropy to act on, and it can’t be that much of a stretch to reach out and truly grief the people I pass every day. When I’m turning left I can pretend to not see the little green arrow until it’s turning yellow, then leave the cars behind me stuck in place. Then late at night on lone deserted highways I can forget to switch to my low beams for oncoming traffic. I can accidentally spam people with massive attachments and do infinitely recursive quotes when I troll on the forums. Maybe my effect on the world isn’t so inert after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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