Yeah, I'm going to go with something else. Those things generally don't apply to the kind of people and behaviour I'm thinking about.
It seems they derive a sense of meaning from their work because they have little else in their life. It acts as an anesthetic from the pain of a mundane life. Maybe the drama comes from boredom and a desire to be important or engaged in some adventure. Also, they tend to be small-minded types as well.
The pettiness and smallness is a source of frustration to me. Sometimes I want to shake people and see if they are actually alive. But I also feel that I am the same as them, and that underneath they are a conscious being with real emotions and deep thoughts and concerns above the trivial, it's just they feel oppressed by the social system around them and they hide because they don't know what else to do. And so they moan about irrelevant meaningless garbage and I nod and smile in return and all the time both of us are inside screaming.
It seems they derive a sense of meaning from their work because they have little else in their life. It acts as an anesthetic from the pain of a mundane life. Maybe the drama comes from boredom and a desire to be important or engaged in some adventure. Also, they tend to be small-minded types as well.
The pettiness and smallness is a source of frustration to me. Sometimes I want to shake people and see if they are actually alive. But I also feel that I am the same as them, and that underneath they are a conscious being with real emotions and deep thoughts and concerns above the trivial, it's just they feel oppressed by the social system around them and they hide because they don't know what else to do. And so they moan about irrelevant meaningless garbage and I nod and smile in return and all the time both of us are inside screaming.
