I'm not really trying to get you or your friends arrested; I didn't know what else to say. The conglomerate has given you terrible role models, who are telling you that it's acceptable to be extremely disrespectful toward someone who can't stop that disrespectful behavior, even when it's criminal.
Do you know that I would rather be thought ugly and called ugly by someone who wasn't invading my privacy than thought pretty and called pretty by someone who was invading my privacy? For someone to have a negative opinion of me is not an invasion of my boundaries; it's more disrespectful to invade someone's boundaries than to dislike someone from a respectful distance.
People don't always know that they're being disrespectful. I try to gauge that when I'm thinking about what my responses to people ought to be.
Someone once said to me that "everybody whom you ever know will disappoint you." That was helpful; I stopped thinking that I had to depend on people whom I erroneously thought were infallible, or be contemptuous of people whom I thought were failures, and I was able to start thinking of other people as having their own problems to deal with, the way that I had my own problems to deal with. Nobody should let other people hurt him or her over and over, but realizing that nobody could "save" or even "ruin" me helped me to think of life as something for me to try to understand rather than as something to try to avoid or totally control.
The conglomerate is an anomaly. It really is trying to ruin my life, and no group of people has ever treated me this badly before. Fortunately, when the conglomerate started to try to ruin my life, I already knew that what I chose to do in the midst of all of those attacks would help me or hurt me. I knew that because of all the times in the past when my bad decisions in the midst of stress had hurt me and sometimes other people. Nobody is consistent all the time, but I try to be positive, productive and conscientious. I also have to spend time thinking about what is positive, productive and conscientious for a situation; it's difficult to know what to do if you don't think about what you're doing.
Having no privacy doesn't cause me to be less conscientious; the conglomerate takes advantage of my having no privacy to interpret my behavior the way that it wants to so that it can try to excuse its abuses of me and the rest of the world. It's a cycle that I don't have the power to break.
I don't do to anyone what the conglomerate does to me, nor would I want to do this to someone.
Copyright L. Kochman, July 19, 2016 @ 1:49 p.m.
