A while back I posted about holding people accountable for how they've behaved towards me. I talked about the eighties and how I never felt that I really called people out for what they did to me. I've put that into context for what all went on with me these past eight or nine years with the Schmaylor Schmift and all of that.
What I DID do back in the eighties involved learning to be by myself in constructive ways. I worked on this in an effort to help me sever ties with those who had hurt me so. It worked. Whenever I saw those people again, the whole sense that things could never be the same between us hung over everything in a very palpable sense. It was never my sincere wish to actually hurt any of these people, and the way some of them have turned out, I can't wish on them any worse an outcome than the ones they have visited on themselves.
I think about this as I go see bands and see that group of people, any one of whom could've come to me and said something along the lines of, "Hey Rich, I heard some really fucked up story about you, and I wonder what you have to say about it." I've decided to just learn to be by myself in constructive ways, which is a project I took up again in earnest back in 2001. I'm not so much interested in holding all of these people accountable in some call-out sort of way.
What I DID do back in the eighties involved learning to be by myself in constructive ways. I worked on this in an effort to help me sever ties with those who had hurt me so. It worked. Whenever I saw those people again, the whole sense that things could never be the same between us hung over everything in a very palpable sense. It was never my sincere wish to actually hurt any of these people, and the way some of them have turned out, I can't wish on them any worse an outcome than the ones they have visited on themselves.
I think about this as I go see bands and see that group of people, any one of whom could've come to me and said something along the lines of, "Hey Rich, I heard some really fucked up story about you, and I wonder what you have to say about it." I've decided to just learn to be by myself in constructive ways, which is a project I took up again in earnest back in 2001. I'm not so much interested in holding all of these people accountable in some call-out sort of way.
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