The Lighter Side of Absolute Zero: Fragile Human Lives <link rel="prev" href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/2006/08/a_little_theological_game_of_w.html" title="A Little Theological Game of "What If?"" /> <link rel="next" href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/2006/08/gothic_in_oregon.html" title="Gothic in Oregon?" />   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/mt-site.js"></script> </head> <body class="layout-one-column" onload="individualArchivesOnLoad(commenter_name)"> <div id="container"> <div id="container-inner" class="pkg"> <div id="banner"> <div id="banner-inner" class="pkg"> <h1 id="banner-header"><a href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/" accesskey="1">The Lighter Side of Absolute Zero</a></h1> <h2 id="banner-description"></h2> </div> </div> <div id="pagebody"> <div id="pagebody-inner" class="pkg"> <div id="alpha"> <div id="alpha-inner" class="pkg"> <p class="content-nav"> <a href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/2006/08/a_little_theological_game_of_w.html">« A Little Theological Game of “What If?”</a> | <a href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/">Main</a> | <a href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/2006/08/gothic_in_oregon.html">Gothic in Oregon? »</a> </p> <a id="a001001"></a> <div class="entry" id="entry-1001"> <h3 class="entry-header">Fragile Human Lives</h3> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-category">{Rumination}</span> <span class="entry-topics">Topics: <a href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=5&tag=Humanity&limit=20&IncludeBlogs=5" rel="tag">Humanity</a> </span></div> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p> It amazes me, though in a negative way, how much one person can affect another for ill. Trauma is so easy to perpetrate, and is so difficult to heal from. There is that old adage that it takes seven compliments to undo one discouraging comment; whether or not this is true (certainly it’s a bad formula) the principle holds. It takes much effort to undo wrong done to another human being. I’m just stunned when I think about how much one person can do to another with do little and in so short of a time. </p><p> For me I still am working to overcome and shrug off most of the crap an old boss burdened me with. It’s been years, and I’m mostly fine, but every once in a while I am yet reminded that his actions and words haunt me still, and I still have to deal with them. Am I the worse for it? Probably not, but I still have to deal with it, and in some situations I act differently (cautious when I don’t need to be) than I used to. Amazing, but I wish there it wasn’t. I wish this were not so impossible, but if that were the case we couldn’t affect people in a positive way either, and it’s those stories that we all love and enjoy. </p> </div> <div id="more" class="entry-more"> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="post-footers">Posted by Seth Croston Barber on August 30, 2006 11:05 AM</span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://blog.0kelvin.net/lite/2006/08/fragile_human_lives.html">Permalink</a> </p> </div> <div class="trackbacks"> <h3 id="trackback" class="trackbacks-header">TrackBack</h3> <div id="trackbacks-info"> <p>TrackBack URL for this entry:<br />http://blog.0kelvin.net/mt-tb.cgi/435</p> </div> <div class="trackbacks-content"> </div> </div> <div id="comments" class="comments"> <div class="comments-content"> </div> <form method="post" action="http://blog.0kelvin.net/mt-comments.cgi" name="comments_form" onsubmit="if (this.bakecookie.checked) rememberMe(this)"> <input type="hidden" name="static" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="1001" /> <div class="comments-open" id="comments-open"> <h2 class="comments-open-header">Post a comment</h2> <div class="comments-open-content"> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <p class="comments-open-moderated"> (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. 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