Quicunque

Fanny Fae at Panhistoria asks, "What makes you feel powerful?"

Assuming this to mean personally rather than politically, I don't actually know that I ever feel powerful. Not really. I mean, I can feel confident, or capable, but -- powerful? No, I don't think so. What makes one person more powerful than another anyway? My ego/dick/bank balance/Uzi 9mm/gob is bigger than yours?

But now I come to think of it... there is something that makes me feel powerful. Withholding the salmon in the fridge from the cats despite their pleas and demands. It makes me feel like I have at least a modicum of control over them... mwahahahaha. *Sighs* okay, so who the hell am I kidding? Excuse me while I go feed the cats.

Sometimes I have to wonder if some people work hard at being offensive, or if it just comes as effortlessly to them as it seems.

Sometimes I wish I were like some puffed-up people who can make even their most simple remark sound supercilious and obnoxious. Then I too could make self-applauding comments to make myself look very, very important and be smugly self-important towards those not fortunate enough to have been born as me..

But then again, most times I'm just fucking relieved I'm not some people who must be queening it over their tiny little known world in contant fear they might shrivel up and die if they're not constantly noticed *chuckles*. For once, I'm more amused than really irritated.

Even monkeys fall from trees, as the Japanese say.

(This is actually true. Once when I was taken to a wildlife park as a young kid, a monkey did indeed fall from a tree, right onto our car. My mother was traumatized for the rest of the day.)