I'd rather see the world from another angle, we are everyday angels.

[aimeekitty]

"It doesn't take a talent to be mean
Your words can crush things that are unseen
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way."

also:
"'Cause anyone can start a conflict
it's harder yet to disregard it
I'd rather see the world from another angle
We are everyday angels
Be careful with me 'cause I'd like to stay that way
"

- Jewel

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Comments

[kayiko.livejournal.com]

awww the many memories growing up listening to Jewel. She helpped me through alot of things. I like that song alot. ^-^

[little-teacup.livejournal.com]

Oh my God...those lyrics are awesome. I feel like that so so often (since yeah, I'm a sensitive "goody-two-shoes").

I think that's my theme song. -_-

[aunrea.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing that! I haven't heard it yet, but I'm a fan of Jewel. :)

[ladyofdragons.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you for sharing. I know this feeling all to well. Regretfully, I think this world's already jaded me some... Had a good friend teach me how to turn my back on people in need. I never knew how to do it before... But all I ever got out of helping this person was pain and frustration. He finally dumped me for a new best friend, told me I was "too high maintenance."

What album is this song on, maybe I have it at home in our collection... At the very least it reminds me to value and protect what I have left that hasn't been tainted by bad experiences.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

its on the peices of me one I think...

I think that we can choose though to _re_sensitize ourselves. it's always a choice how we react to people, you know? sometimes I have to sit down and say "what am I doing?"

some people are needy, but you can't help them. if you get what I mean, and it sounds like your friend was one of them. sometimes its actually better if you DONT help them. plus eventually helping that kind of blackhole can just suck the joy out of you, which also can ruin you too. so hey, its tough.

[ladyofdragons.livejournal.com]

Oh nice! I'm pretty sure we have that album! Coolies.

Yeah that's true. We can always choose to become bitter over something, and even if we can help it at the time, there's no reason why we can't make an effort to get over it later.

You're right about my friend. Sad part is that it took me forever to figure that part out myself. I let him hurt me too many times before I realized it wasn't healthy to keep trying to save our friendship. He's a nice guy, creative and fun to hang around with, but he has a baaaaaad selfish streak, and is rather spoiled. =\ I think a lot of his moody behavior is just to get attention... and well, he's good at it, since he had me fooled for quite sometime. I finally wizened up and realized I was getting sucked into the black hole you mentioned. I had to push our friendship aside, I decided he could come to me if he still valued it, and well, if he didn't, then his loss!

He came around eventually, realized I wasn't around anymore and musta missed me. It was cute, actually. We're still friends, but not close like before. And we won't likely be, until he grows up a bit more. But I'm fine with that. One less person to coddle him is all for the better, (if only I could get his wife on that bandwagon). Amusingly enough the friend he 'dumped' me for got the same treatment as I did. She and I are buddies now, haha!

[mersades.livejournal.com]

That makes me feel like you're feeling the same un-ease about the world as I currently am. But then, I might just be reading too deep into things - I tend to do that. I've always been aware there were bad things in the world, but lately I've just had this really nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach that I can't explain. Perhaps it's just the fact I worry about the human race as a whole far too much.

help

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[(Anonymous)]

A guy once told me I was too needy and dumped me, then he immediately crawled into bed with some slut who slept with him after knowing him for ten minutes. I guess 'needy' in his dick-tionary means "not willing to listen to me talk constantly about myself" because that's basically what the whole thing was.

You can't help someone who needs more help than you can give, you can't help someone who needs help but won't accept it. You can't help someone who is too f*cking full of himself to give a thought to the feelings of others.

God that makes total sense.

[miss-jane.livejournal.com]

This guy I've been having problems with for a long while, that song, it reminds me of him. I just deleted him off my ICQ list. I can't talk to him any other way. I don't think I want to anyway.

When I first met him he seemed all nice, and he used to be affectionate, but then he turned into a monster. A heartless, selfish, cruel monster. He knew that my mom was really sick with cancer, but still, he just had to tell me once that "I and everyone else in the hall, especially the grade tens, hate how you complain about your mom all the time."

That was before I knew she was terminal.

I found out his dad has cancer, and he even told me he didn't ask for compassion or sensitivity. He's really needy though, he has to make people angry or do stupid shit to get attention. I felt sorry for him, and walked on eggshells not to get HIM angry.

Well, no more. He = gone. I = happy.