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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 18:26:35 GMT
Probably, anybody who rides in a car with you has heard your nasty inner voice talking out loud.
"Wake up, Grandpa. The light's green!" "Hey, Dumbo, you're supposed to turn right from the right lane!" "Get your fat ass across the crosswalk, you bitch!"
That nasty inner voice is a coward, though, because sometimes you can hear it saying things like:
"Oops! I didn't see you back there!" "Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't know the turn was coming up so fast."
Except inside your car (which we must now assume is an extension of your brain since you can talk out loud in there), generally all of this nasty talk remains silent in your mind. As a subway commuter, I often hear it say things like:
"Get a move on, blubber butt!" "Cripples shouldn't be allowed here at rush hour." "You are too ugly. Please leave this train immediately!"
I sometimes wonder who this nasty person is, since all of you know what a kind and gentle person I am, with never a cross or hurtful word and an overwhelming love of all living things.
But I hear that bastard in the kitchen sometimes, and he is talking to me!
"You are such an idiot! Why did you drop that on the floor?" "You made this shit and you have to eat it, you imbecile." "Fucking hell! You have ruined dinner again!"
Only every now and then will he relent and say things like:
"You deserve a drink. A big one!"
I don't know where this guy comes from, but he pops up regularly in the strangest places, usually when I am alone.
Does such a person live in your head, too? Are you mistreated like I am?
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Post by BigIain on Feb 18, 2010 18:33:01 GMT
Yes
He urges me to sample wines from the lower end of the spectrum of price too. He is a bad bad bloke, full of abuse and insulting comments. Some of them are quite funny though if you happen to be on my wavelength. He seems to be very fond of saying to me: "Just check out her legs/ass/boobs she will never notice".
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2010 18:59:27 GMT
Wow -- are you reading my mind? I was thinking about this just the other day, as I caught myself snarling aloud, "Pay attention, Bixa! Are you stupid or what?!" This was shortly after chiding myself with "How many times are you planning to drop that?!"
I don't need this kind of negative input!
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Post by spindrift on Feb 18, 2010 19:00:02 GMT
We all suffer intrusions from this nasty inner voice. It's develish hard work to keep it at bay - next to impossible. I'd like to know where it comes from....it's so negative. The great thing is to recognise that it's talking because most of the time we don't register it but are influenced by it nevertheless. Luckily, when sleeping, we seem to get away from it.
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 19, 2010 4:39:31 GMT
"Shit! Are those cops going to stop me?"
"You should ave bought the driving license last year when you got here..."
"No worries, they're stopping that motorcyclist, enough time to get the damn license next year!"
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Post by fumobici on Feb 21, 2010 5:03:59 GMT
I hate catching myself thinking these snippy unkind sorts of things. When I was younger I'd sometimes even vocalize this rude person inside myself's snarky commentary.
I really don't like having this devil on one shoulder and frequently feel guilty for even thinking such things, knowing full well they are not things I want to be thinking even as I think them. Driving among slow older drivers is a trigger for me.
Why can't being fully aware these thoughts are uncouth and unwelcome be sufficient to permanently silence them? I often feel like my will has failed me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 13:46:47 GMT
Yes, I have one too. I try and correct myself, but often catch myself thinking negative things about others.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 16:15:02 GMT
Actually, sometimes my inner voice starts insulting me when it sees me in the mirror, and I can't deny anything that it says.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 16:20:43 GMT
;D
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Post by spindrift on Feb 21, 2010 17:25:48 GMT
My inner voice is telling me that I'm a lazy good-for-nothing....playing on my laptop when the house needs tidying (again).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 17:30:11 GMT
We all suffer intrusions from this nasty inner voice. It's develish hard work to keep it at bay - next to impossible. I'd like to know where it comes from....it's so negative. The great thing is to recognise that it's talking because most of the time we don't register it but are influenced by it nevertheless. Luckily, when sleeping, we seem to get away from it. According to my husband,my nasty inner voice is most vocal at night when I am sleeping. The stuff he has told me that I've said...jeez....
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Post by spindrift on Feb 21, 2010 17:33:29 GMT
Oh! then there's no getting away from it
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 17:36:22 GMT
Oh! then there's no getting away from it Apparently not...
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Post by spindrift on Feb 22, 2010 11:11:45 GMT
I want to say I that I also have a very nice inner voice
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Post by existentialcrisis on Feb 22, 2010 14:21:28 GMT
I work with the public.... a particularly difficult sort. My inner voice is constantly screaming hateful things.
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Post by tillystar on Feb 22, 2010 14:50:19 GMT
My nasty inner voice often surprises me with how venomous it can get on the tube jurney home from work. Honestly, no one is safe.
And all the time I am cursing you for standing so close with your big hair, bad breath and ridiculous shoes I am smiling sweetly.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Feb 23, 2010 7:32:25 GMT
I found myself today cursing at inanimate objects... such as the smoke alarm and the stove.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2010 8:23:53 GMT
Mine is quite calm at the moment and merely asked me "Shouldn't you be working on the DAS-2 fiscal report?"
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Post by spindrift on Feb 23, 2010 9:37:23 GMT
Mine is saying 'Have you got an earache?'
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2010 10:17:31 GMT
Very quiet and calm for the last 48 hours.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2010 18:03:51 GMT
That voice was really nasty tonight in the crowded metro.
Among the remarks that I heard:
-- If you cleaned that jacket, you might manage to get rid of some of the cold tobacco stink. -- Whom do you think that wig is fooling? -- Back off, gel-boy! I don't want greasy stains on my clothes. -- Move that fat ass, lady! -- Wash your hair, woman! It might help with the nauseating smell. -- Did you get those pimples from jerking off too much or eating too much junk?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2010 18:05:11 GMT
;D
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Post by fumobici on Feb 25, 2010 6:17:28 GMT
Well enunciated. Now my inner nasty voice seems less... well nasty somehow. Comparatively
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2010 8:06:03 GMT
One of my colleagues told me that she yells at wild motorcycles and cars passing on the freeway "you know you're a future organ donor, don't you?"
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Post by spaceneedle on Feb 25, 2010 8:41:19 GMT
Here's mine right now:
I can't believe that cop gave me a citation for going 31 in a 25. That breaks my 16 year streak of no infractions. The cop almost seemed embarrassed to even be writing it.
The pathetic ways this place is going about getting revenues is $%ed up!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2010 9:36:21 GMT
Is that a 16 year streak of no infractions or a 16 year streak of not getting caught for infractions? ;D
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Post by tillystar on Feb 25, 2010 9:38:30 GMT
Wow thats all very familiar. I wonder if our inner voices are related, or if all inner voices turn into the same demons on the tube?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2010 10:07:01 GMT
What is really scary is that on crowded transportation like that, the whole train is obviously seething with hundreds of those inner voices all attacking each other or lusting after certain body parts. What if the inner voices get loose some day? And what are they all saying about me?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2010 16:26:30 GMT
I'm so glad I don't have to tackle public transport anymore.
Okay I do have a few things that have come to mind lately in my nasty inner voice:
'Blimey, that's such a boring bunch of crap'
'What's it like being such an airhead? must be roomy in there'
'Crikey, she's ugly, must be hard looking at herself in the mirror every morning'
'yawn, yawn and yawn again' (at various things)
'I want to be the best fu*ck he ever had' (sorry about this one)
'Man, I'd like to kick her up the butt'
'So fucking what?, piss off and get a life'
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2010 17:28:16 GMT
What is really scary is that on crowded transportation like that, the whole train is obviously seething with hundreds of those inner voices all attacking each other or lusting after certain body parts. What if the inner voices get loose some day? And what are they all saying about me? Actually, if they are on a cell phone and most of them probably are, you are already getting a glimpse of those "private thoughts" (Or do cell phones not work on metro trains when there are tunnels involved?)
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