confusion

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Hypocritical 

September Clouds

Twice, today.   It’s an uncomfortable feeling and… unwarranted?   I don’t know why I’d feel that way but I did.

Both times, it was at EC, while answering questions on the forum.   The first was the thread I answered where someone was asking for help and advice considering long distance relationships.  The second was in a thread where someone asked advice on starting a home business from a hobby.

I know my advice in both cases was good, and I am speaking from a place of experience as well in both instances.  And yet…. somehow I feel hypocritical anyway.

I tell myself that I have a thriving online business, and thus I am in an excellent position to give advice on such things.  Yet…. oddly I feel a fraud spouting hypocrisy.   Same goes for the long distance relationship advice.  We’ve been in a long distance relationship for 9 years.  It’s had its ups and downs like all relationships do.   So why do I feel as if I have no room to speak on the topic of long distance relationships?

I don’t understand why I feel this way… and yet it came up twice today.

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Puzzled

Have you ever seen a light bulb go dim instead of burn out?

It’s the strangest thing.   I use a 150 watt full spectrum light bulb in the lamp in my living room.  Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that my living room seems more dim than usual.   Then today, coming out of the kitchen, it was really dark in there.

Yet, the light bulb was still burning.

I went and got a new one anyway, because I figured it couldn’t possibly be my eyes playing tricks on me when it’s such a marked amount of darkness.  And I was right.   I changed the bulb and it’s now bright in the room again.

The puzzling part is that the bulb never actually burnt out.  I’ve never heard of (or experienced) this happening before.  I wouldn’t even have thought it could… and yet, there you have it.