I should mention
Mar. 4th, 2004 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtues... that I have a Guy Advice Posse (three guys who ALWAYS have good advice for me) who helped me to understand what was going on with the girl bully and how to deal with it.
Brian, in particular, occasionally says something that fundamentally alters my way of thinking. In this particular case, at my going-away party, he said, "Self-defense is sticking up for yourself in whatever situation you are in."
Yeah, I like having a six-ounce tactical nuke hit my frontal lobes, thanks. I guess senseis are like Moms: Once your sensei, always your sensei, apparently.
In any case, that particular sentence made me fundamentally alter my behavior, because he was right. I can take out a rapist in a dark alley, but I can't always hold my own in a sticky social situation. Spurred on by that sentence, I am learning to do that.
Brian, in particular, occasionally says something that fundamentally alters my way of thinking. In this particular case, at my going-away party, he said, "Self-defense is sticking up for yourself in whatever situation you are in."
Yeah, I like having a six-ounce tactical nuke hit my frontal lobes, thanks. I guess senseis are like Moms: Once your sensei, always your sensei, apparently.
In any case, that particular sentence made me fundamentally alter my behavior, because he was right. I can take out a rapist in a dark alley, but I can't always hold my own in a sticky social situation. Spurred on by that sentence, I am learning to do that.
