MissMorrigan
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Apologies for quoting both these in their entirety, I felt they needed highlighting - again. Guilty as charged, in the past I have judged people based on appearance, the friends they have hung around with (I'm referring to offline) and their personal lifestyle choices. As a result of my veiled snobbism (let's be honest, that's exactly what it is) and have no doubt I have missed out on getting to know some great people. What cured it? A reversal - I overheard someone referring to me as 'that girl that's rather up herself - she's not very pleasant, is she?'. I have to admit that it upset me. I had no idea I had such an attitude and once I had taken that on board, I had to agree with the women that were chatting about me - my attitude towards others stank. I'm not out on a crusade to have everyone I encounter like me, it would be nice but before that happens people have to like who they are first and foremost. Quite often people bully their way through life and excuse their shitty behaviour as having 'attitood', however, I tend to think that attitude towards others is, in reality, a transference of how they see themselves. quote:
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop ~FR~ to no single person...... I think I'm a fairly decent person. I'm off the wall.. left of center. .. I have tattoos that can be viewed when I do not choose to cover them (upper arms, calf, upper back). I have been judged based solely on the fact that I have skinart showing. Will you immediately judge me as UNWORTHY because I have tattoos? If so, then I'm sorry. Because you have passed up a chance to kow the PERSON that I am... your judgement has denied me because what you SEE is the yardstick. HOWEVER... as in my avatar pic.. if you saw me without my tats showing.. would you have taken the time to talk? laugh? find out that I am a PERSON? Discover I have a brain? Guess what.. I am the same, inked or not. I am the same if I have a singlewide trailer that is shoddy, the same if I'm missing 15 teeth. just saying. For what it's worth, I think you're pretty nifty. You seem to have a good heart, and a personality that glows.
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The Tooth Fairy who teaches kids to sell body parts for money. A free society is a society where it is safe to find one's self unpopular and where history has shown that exceptions are not that exceptional.
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