What Fills the Void?

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First time non-violent offenders usually don't get jail time, so you wonder why we bother to arrest them and go through the motions. Probation doesn't mean squat to most criminals, they go about their business doing whatever they want, they don't follow the rules anyway, and no one calls them on it. Either put them in jail and let them serve their time, or stop pretending probation means anything and call it what it is, letting them go early.

Originally Posted by FirenzeVeritas:

I see Semi edited her post where she said I must mean "focus" of control.

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Originally Posted by FirenzeVeritas:

As with locus of control, I don't think you know the meaning of Narcissistic. In fact, you won't find me even wearing makeup when working. There's also a distinction between being egotistical and knowing one's self worth. Very few nurses are egotistical considering some of their job requirements.

I notice you just put words in my mouth again in one of your recent posts.

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Gosh, I edited a post? How dare any of us here ever do such a thing! So shoot me!

If it makes you feel better about yourself to think you need to tell me the meanings of words, I would never take that pleasure from you. I never related my post to your job, I was speaking of how you come across on this forum & how some of us see you.

Putting words in your mouth? Yeah, I learned that from you & Bill. Doesn’t feel good, does it?

I mentioned you edited a post because you took out the portion on which I was commenting.

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What do you think Edit is for? It's to add to or take away from the original post.

As I said, how dare any of us here ever do such a thing! So shoot me!

Semi, I edit cause I misspelled or whatever. I don't think it was a criticism, just a statement as to why it was mentioned. Your posts stand for themselves, so you don't need to be that sensitive.

Anyways...back to this 'void' thing, please...

Is this void just a lack of knowledge like DF said?

Or is it more of an emotional thing?  Or both?

Any 'voids' I've had in my life were always temporary things that I could always fill myself, eventually.

Questions asked and answered filled the knowledge gaps when they arose, and I always managed to find people who could help me with the emotional ones.

My father used to tell me that life was like a mountain. Each step got easier the closer you got to the top. (Easy for him to say...He was a well-connected overachiever.)

Unfortunately for everybody else, that isn't always the case.

Life for us is more like hills and valleys....Up some days and back down the next.

I think my life has been pretty full.  In the 48 years I've been alive, I've managed to live the kinda life most folks from big, insular families in tight-knit communities could only ever see in a movie.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

Ain't no voids here.

I have plenty of voids.  For example, what is the best bait to catch largemouth bass on top water?  How does one compliment a woman without insulting her? Exactly how did life originate?

Without mysteries, life is complacent.  Viva the mysteries!

DF

DF, in answer to your first question, try Heddon's Teeny Torpedo. They make a Tiny Torpedo that is larger, but I have caught more good sized bass on the Teeny Torpedo than any other lure.

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You're joking, right?