Do you know how many people will often have at least one person
in their life that always seems to know what buttons to push to
get them to explode in anger? Well, for me it was often times
with my younger brother. While I knew this fact, I was unable
to answer the question of "Why?". Of what I did know
about myself I tried to tell Audrey.
The level of sensativity to those buttons being pushed depends
largely on how often those buttons have been pushed in their past
and it does not need to be done by the same person. At the core
of my being there was a desire to someday find a woman who could
Love me as much I knew I could Love them. I had been raised to
believe that it was meant for a man to someday cleave unto a woman
and that a woman was meant to cleave unto a man in the bands of
marriage. At no time did I ever somehow insist that "Audrey
was the only one for me". I did know that she did possess
the ability to please me. Learning what those buttons were, and
learning why those buttons are "those buttons" is something
that only time could tell. I do not think that many people stop
to analyze why people have the effect on them as they do and so
those buttons stay "buttons" for the rest of their life.
I did not want this to be the case for me. In my life through
matters of my own survival I had been able to develop a shield
over time that was able to open and close at will and it was capable
of moving to address many different situations in my life. It
would give the greatest delight later in life when I would be
able to develop a reputation for practically never getting angry.
A reputation that I live by even today; though there are those
exceptions. Becoming angry at God was to be one of those exceptions,
and even something not discouraged of God, as stated in the Bible...
something to the affect of "Be angry, but sin not!".
God was frequently angered by man's deeds.
Anger is the emotional point that seperates Love from Hate.
Daniel Webster would define
Anticipation - as being "The act of looking forward.
Specifically: a pleasureful expectation."
Expectation - as being "To consider probable
or certain".
Love - as being "To feel a lover's passion,
devotion, or tenderness for another".
Relationship - as being ...
Feedback - as being ...
Intimacy - as being ...
Handicap - as being ...
Psychi - as being ...
Committment - as being ...
Ethnography is the process of defining word used with a
definition of a word in order to gain a better understanding of
that original word. If words were variables of an equasion it
would resemble a Verbal (Composite) function like F(g(x)).
In the above definitions some words were used in part to define
the meaning of another word; for example, Anticipation.
What is the difference between Anticipation and Expectation?
What is the difference between Love and Intimacy?
What is the difference between Friendship and Marriage?
From the contrast of my mother's love for her son to the uncaring
world; the barrier that could keep one's sanity in place had become
extremely thin.
Audrey was never viewed like some kind of mother-figure to me
as in my mind she was like an abused little dog with many already
existing areas of insecurity. My anger and I believe the same
kind of anger began to boil as Audrey would begin to hold the
opinion of "who cares about how you feel".
I would learn later on through retrospective thought and through
the analyzing of my own feelings over the years that it was in
the "who cares?" mentality expressed in words and deeds
that would be the cause for these emotion to begin to boil. To
be the best friend I could be her, I tried to consider her needs
at all times. To take that effort and to say that it had no value
to her, in affect, was extremely cruel as it tends to be a rare
quality in today's society.