ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss Hey there Steel, If you feel like you are becoming a dick (whether quickly or slowly), then you are changing in a way you don't like. The innards are off kilter. Doesn't really matter what we all think. What matters is that you are feeling off kilter. Yeah. I don't see you as becoming a dick at all, and from the posts of yours I've read over the last few days, I'm uncertain why you would think you are. But you know yourself better than any of us, and if there's even some small part of you that feels as though it's deviating - ever so slightly - from the course you think you should be on, then you're probably going to sense that long before it becomes apparent to any of us. Maybe you do need to just take a break and re-connect with yourself. I follow the same process a couple-three times a year - self-check, reset, self-check, reset. Log off and go rollerblading or camping, come back in a week and feel like my old self again. It's easy to get sucked into a different persona online. Sorry to hear about the loss in your family, but I suggest that might partially explain what's happening with you at the moment. When someone close to us dies, and people we love are hurting over it, we tend to connect more deeply with our compassionate side than we otherwise might. We often become more attuned to the feelings of others, more sympathetic, and sometimes that manifests as a heightened sensitivity to the way we are treating other people. So it could be that you're not really becoming a dick after all; you're just more acutely aware of how some of the things you say might be construed as dickishness. Think that could be part of it?
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