I f****** hate the holidays.
I don’t want to be distracted by all the social events, dinners or any of the non-conducive b******* my wife wants me to do with her.
My work is of critical importance to me and it’s what matters most as it will be my legacy.
Thankfully we have no children to get in the way of my progress and my friends know not to invite me or my wife to dinner parties, potlucks or anything until I’m finished with my life’s work.
Her friends on the other hand do not understand or respect my wishes and they keep interfering by inviting us both to places I don’t give a f*** about or want to go. It’s getting to the point where there is tension between myself and my wife and I don’t think we should be together anymore if she doesn’t understand how important it is to me that I have this.
I will not die an asterisk in my field. I’m one of the most brilliant people in my profession and I refuse to disrespect my genius and leave without making history for my work.
I don’t care who gets offended or who I hurt anymore. I can’t afford to worry about such things, because my work is more important than everyone and everything at this moment. It what gives me purpose and if the people in our families and friend circles don’t understand or respect this. Then f*** each and every last one of them, because my work comes first before them, my wife and me.
My work is more important than you. My work is my God. My work is life itself and that’s all that should matter to me.
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Try some honesty, sir, instead of boiling. I think you do care what people think, otherwise you would just do what I do and tell the truth, not with a snarl, but with a smile. People would understand, trust me. Try it, but first have a look at your overall rage, rage at the mundane people, the cows, the sheep, the boring, the ordinary. Don’t blame you for not wanting to deal with the holidays, but there is a way to express yourself without being a shit about it, yes? 🙂
The other thing is – you will be dead, what do you care about a “legacy?” 10 years, 20, 30, 50, 100, 1,000, 10,000 years – you think humanity will have not self-destructed by then, the nuclear devices exploded by the inevitable insane Jihadists who are, as i write this, closer and closer to getting their hands on these weapons? You think global warming won’t have caused millions of deaths and the possible end of humanity? You really that short-sited that you’re focusing on your puny little 80-year existence and thinking you’re going to be Jesus or Einstein or Dr. Venter?
You must be an unappreciated genius. I’ve come across a few in my lifetime and they share a very similar trait. Their work is more important than the people who love and care about them. It’s something most people can’t process or accept because they don’t understand what it means to see the universe beyond what is put in front of them.
He could also, of course, be a self-important, pompous asshole, too.
I have a cousin who is just like this.
She’s so laser focused on her medical research that she gets very upset with you if you bring what she calls social interruptions to her by inviting her to family functions.
Her Mother died two years ago and she didn’t show up to the viewing or funeral.
Her brothers and sisters no longer talk to her and her dad says speaks to her once a month for only a few minutes.
I don’t know what it’s like to be dedicated to your work like that.
I know that she’s a genius and did read in psychology today that people with above average intelligence are not good with people they are so locked into their problem solving mode of thinking and they can only feel satisfaction from accomplishing their goals.
I don’t think you’re a bad person, but I do think you’re unaware of how you make others feel not appreciating the fact that they are interested in your life.