Posted by TemporarilyBob on September 7, 2012, at 1:42:46
In reply to Hello, posted by Putter on July 11, 2012, at 21:19:40
Geez, Putter! I wish I had gotten back on the boards earlier to have responded in a timely manner. I've walked similar paths to you, taking three to four days to get myself to mail a letter ... Geez, I don't even have a drivers license anymore -- I moved to a different state, it expired, checked online and saw that I needed my social security card to get a new one. Problem is, my wallet was stolen, with my ss card in it, about 18 months ago and I haven't been able to get the courage to go to the social security office to fill out some stupid simple form to get a new one.
Sound familiar? Maybe so, maybe no. But sometimes I can look at it as a Somebody Else's Problem Field. You ever read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? It's from that. The basic idea is that you can do nearly impossible things if only you treat them like someone else's problem. Like a spot of food on a tie. You only see it out of the corner of your eye. If you look right at it, it disappears. So, if you can approach these things by looking at them out of the corner of your eye, using something right in front of you to distract you from what you really want to do, sometimes it works.
Sometimes.
It's silly, and it's stupid, and that's half the fun of it, but it certainly is a lot less frustrating than banging your head futilely against something that's impossible.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
poster:TemporarilyBob
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