What's the Matter?

Does your blood boil?  Does your heart pound?  Are you gasping for breath?

What is it about your sensitivity that causes you to behave in such and easily-triggered and off-balance manner?

You act as if you care not a whit for anyone but yourself.

Is it just an act?  Or is that your innate character?

 

Common Interests of Troubled and Conflicted Souls

I see that you're idly floating speculative theories again, with another of your legendary flights of fancy. Rather than speculate without the benefit of evidence and reasoning, why don't you interview me to discover the nature and extent of my interest in troublesome (and troubled) individuals such as yourself. 

Are you a curious and courageous enough adventure writer to discover the unrevealed truth, or do you prefer to remain safely ensconced in a cocoon of child-like self-delusion, anonymity and utter indifference to the tragic harm caused by blindly acting out one's innermost fantasies? 

Rest assured, I am becoming increasing familiar with your legendary and oft-disclosed lack of caring, which seems to be a recurring issue in your life and recently published remarks.

And I appreciate that your dreadfully provocative remarks elsewhere may well be a transparent attempt to solicit the kind of caring that you apparently crave.

You have a keen sense of awareness of those who respond with a tiny measure of empathy and compassion to your repeated (dare  I say desperate?) cries for attention.  

So it appears you've chosen me as your antagonist, respondent, and reluctant mentor.  So be it.  I'm flattered.

Not that I'm necessarily up to the task, but I'll give it a decent college try.  Of course I fully expect to fail.  I don't yet have the level of competence required to discover how to work and play cooperatively with individuals of your unfamiliar stripe.

Let's begin by crafting a mutually-agreeable social contract setting forth the protocols of our budding and potentially troubled relationship.

What are your desires and objectives for this unfolding relationship?

Do you prefer comedy, tragedy, or bildungsroman?

Do you prefer functional or dysfunctional relationship?

Do you prefer highly emotional or emotionally subdued scenes in our continuing soap opera?