LESSONS Some people are just naturally unpleasant. They don’t know how to be oth

LESSONS

Some people are just naturally unpleasant. They don’t know how to be otherwise. They have a very narrow window of either environment or behavior in which they are tolerable, but the remainder of the time they’re just impossibly unpleasant to be around, and they can’t even grasp that fact.

I have this sort of need to better, help, and even ‘rescue’ people, if they’re willing. And while I have a pretty good success rate, I fail too.

For most people, making them feel safe, listening to them, giving them a little financial and emotional support, a stable force to lean on, and a behavioral example to work from, will allow them to sort of re-balance with the world.

But, the only thing that will help some people is prescription drugs and years of counseling.

I just wish I could tell going in which was which. But I can’t.

I wrote a piece a long time ago called “The Cowardly Wise”. In it, I tried to make the point, that if you luck out with wisdom and achievement in life, and you don’t share it, then you’re depriving people of it – and that’s actually, in my book, cruel. Because people want you.

But some people can’t do much with it, even if they pretend to.