sunshinemiss -> RE: One Reason You Would Want to be On the Other Side of the Slash (12/29/2013 3:54:58 PM)
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I struggle sometimes with making decisions in my personal life. It's difficult for me to manage my emotions at times and DO something. I wanted to buy a couch for a long time, but it was just a real pain in the neck. (The process here is COMPLETELY different unless you want to pay thousands of dollars for a couch - which I didn't). So I simply avoided it. Then a friend of mine who is all bossy and stuff threatened to buy one for me and have it shipped to Asia. It took a couple of weeks, hiring a Korean to do the language leg work, setting up an account with the bank (that took me 3 hours and paying that same bilingual Korean person to help me with it), doing a whole lot of visual work on the computer while not understanding a lot of what I was looking at, NUMEROUS emails back and forth with my hired assistant, and then the normal waiting around for delivery (while crossing my fingers that it wasn't a dud that I ordered sight unseen cause that's how it's done here). Yes, I have a loveseat now. It's red. I've had a lot of laughter with girlfirends, a kiss or two from a sweet man, and dealt with some terrible grief on that thing. It got me out of my isolation by having a place for friends to sit and drink a cup of tea with me... it brought color to my drab apartment... and it is a fun story "I was ordered to buy a couch." Who does that?! I knew it was going to be a HUGE hassle to get a couch. And it was. But I couldn't really see its worth at the time because I was caught up in the anticipated frustration. THAT's the thing I have difficulty with. For work? No problem with hassles. Helping a friend? No problem. Getting my own 'You deserve this; you are worth the effort' feeling to take root... not so much. I think folks on the other side don't have that problem. Fuckers.
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