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Self-defeating behaviour. I'm talking about doing something that you know is stupid in the first place, and then pushing things to their limits and beyond - just to see what happens. Do you know what I'm talking about? It must stop. How do you do it?

― Kim, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I do know what you mean. Luckily, I don't get this way very often.

― Sean, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i always hoped, as i got older, that this sort of behavior might subside on my part with either age or wisdom. unfortunately, as you might have guessed, it hasn't. that's not really an answer, but at least - like michael sang - you are not alone.

― jess, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Incidentally, or not, I'm feebly trying to write an essay and drink a beer at the same time...

― Kim, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Go Kim!

― Samantha, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmmm...me too. (the essay, that is.)

― jess, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I recommend the addition of the beer. This is the most work I've done on it in an entire week. It's mostly coherent too!

― Kim, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I eat more and more sweets and drink more and more coffee, and the only way to stop doing this is to stop doing it. But I don't wanna.

― rainy, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i usually can't stop myself when i get like that, until shit hits the fan and i get covered in it. ie when its too late. then you vow to yourself "i'll never do THAT again", oh but you do, maybe not immediately, but you'll find yourself vortexed by something really dumb and you'll do it all over again. that is if you're me.

― di, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Di said. But is it necessarily a bad thing? In some circumstances yes (infidelity in relationships, maybe, or driving too fast), but in other, more mundane situations, life tends to be a cycle of overdoing something, vowing to cut back, cutting back, then gradulally building up to the situation you were in before. In a way, it's a form of discipline in itself - the fact that it gets to a point where you know you have to change means that effectively you're setting limits for your own behaviour, and if you stick within them, life will continue as normal. Flawed as buggery, but normal.

I reckon. Does that make sense?

― Mark C, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Yes, it made sense.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 29 May 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

most delayed response ever?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 May 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

not by a long stretch

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

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