Angry

[poliphilo]

I was in a terrible mood all yesterday. Carl came to the door and I was brusque with him, my friend Judy wrote me about some regrettable goings-on in the Archdiocese of Westminster and I replied with an attack on Cardinal Archbishop Cormac Murphy O'Connor which was quite hair-raising in its unreconstructed bigotry. In the end I had to sit myself down and ask myself what the hell was going on.

And myself replied that a friend of mine had died young- an LJ friend as it happens- and it just wasn't bloody fair.

Comments

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I get in those moods too. It's a real shame about your friend!

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Understandible, to say the least. No matter what our beliefs or faiths, there are those times when it is simply impossible to make sense of things.

I empathize with your pain.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Tony. Life is quite astonishingly unfair. I keep wishing no one had ever taught me to think of it that way.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's strange. I didn't know him and yet I did. These long-distance friendships are becoming increasingly the norm.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was angry, but not at anyone in particular, so I just hit out at anthing or anyone who came within range.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

You are so right!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Oh mate - I'm terribly angry, and I've been taking it out on poor callmemadam and random strangers. It's just a way of coping, but I'd be the first to admit it's maybe not the best.

Thank you for caring.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's not really my loss. I can't pretend I knew him well. But he leaves a wife and daughter who thought the world of him.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But you've got to let off steam somehow

There's something really fucked up about the world. That's what I've been feeling. I wanted to break things. And if I feel that- and I hardly knew your dad- what must it be like for you?

I've got a lot of LJ friends but very few who were as vivid to me as he was. I had a very strong sense of his personality- and what a good man he was.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

It is a loss you feel, though, if you're angry about it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.....

[mokie]

I've been in your shoes. It's part of why October's such a miserable month in mokievania. All I can really say is that I'm sorry, and that you shouldn't play down your feelings or dismiss them because it was an online friendship--you cared, you miss him, and it means he was loved all the more while he was here.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's strange- this brave, new world where so many of our closest friends are people we've never met. It takes some adjusting to....

[fickleasever.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that.
:(

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

At least once I'd realised what I was upset about I stopped being horrible to my family and friends.