(Pictures by Dave McKean from The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman)

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

undeserved kindness

I was pretty much just going to ignore my birthday this year. I felt awkward about asking people to do anything with me when I've spent the past few weeks/months avoiding them all. I got an email on the weekend, though, saying my housemates were going to make dessert if I was free last night. They got me an incredibly awesome miniature version of the Pompon polar bear sculpture that I love. A couple of housemates also took me out for dinner before the delicious dessert. My advisor and labmates surprised me with ice cream in the afternoon, too.
I felt very spoiled and I enjoyed all the treats, but of course, that's too straightforward and positive for me... I also felt incredibly undeserving and kind of guilty that everyone is so nice to me, but I'm not a good friend to anyone else. I feel guilty that maybe I didn't react enthusiastically enough to show how much I really love my present, too. I did stay out of my room and hang out with housemates for at least part of tonight (after surviving my second appointment with the scary psychiatrist. It wasn't quite so torturous this time, although I still felt like a freak. He's letting me go back to the meds nurse, although he did make me promise to stop by and let him know how I'm going if he's there. Yeah, right... I'm pretty sure he won't be there at 8am, luckily.)

11 Comments:

At 11:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love that sculpture!

And I completely missed out on wishing you a happy birthday! I hope you do something nice for yourself!

that's funny about the psych saying to stop by, It reminds me of a post styley made once about people who say that and whether or not they mean it, if one should, and what one would say should one just top by!

So, are you still supposed to take the ritalin?

 
At 11:41 PM, Blogger Lucy said...

thanks, Shrinky :) Yeah, I'm not sure if he meant it or not, but since I couldn't even say hi at the start of my actual appointment, I'm just going to ignore it.
He said "so you stopped taking the ritalin, right?" so I just nodded and was glad I didn't have to actually ask to get the answer... I did skip today's dose, anyway, thinking I probably shouldn't be taking it. Now I'm left with a bunch of tablets, though. I wonder if zach'll call again :)

 
At 6:36 AM, Blogger BrightStar (B*) said...

I missed saying Happy Birthday to you, too.

I'm glad people took care of you on your birthday. I often think that it's hard to let oneself be loved... at least I have a hard time with it.

 
At 11:15 AM, Blogger Phantom Scribbler said...

I'm glad that they took care of you on your birthday, too. Because you do deserve it!

Does this mean that you don't have appointments with the psych guy anymore?

 
At 2:35 PM, Blogger luckybuzz said...

Not surprisingly, I have a terrible time letting people be nice to me, too (the hair salon lady who does the hairwash/scalp massage nearly killed me...I was tense the whole time!). But I'm glad you were celebrated, and that you let yourself be a little bit spoiled. You totally deserve it. (And happy birthday, again!)

 
At 3:32 PM, Blogger Katie said...

Happy Belated Birthday!!!!!!

First of all you DO deserve kindness!!!!!

Secondly, I am glad to hear that your second appointment was not so tortuous.

Hope that you are doing better!

 
At 7:20 PM, Blogger StyleyGeek said...

Being the expert on people who say "stop by and see me" :) I say totally don't go. Not even a little bit :)

But I'm glad the appointment went better and that your birthday had some nice bits. I wish I could trade you some of my "Yes, presents! Yes dessert! Gimme gimme GIMME! It's all about me!" birthday attitude. I probably don't need quite so much of it myself...

 
At 8:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh Luuuuuccccyyyyy! Where are you?

 
At 3:59 PM, Blogger Scrivener said...

I agree with all of them.

Does it help, too, to recognize that it's not only that you're a good person and therefore deserve kindness, but that in fact everyone deserves such kindness--there is far too little kindness in this world of ours, so any bit of kindness that comes to any of us is thoroughly deserved and absolutely warranted.

 
At 9:52 PM, Blogger luckybuzz said...

Lucy, where ARE you??? Are you still recovering from birthday celebrations?

 
At 9:58 PM, Blogger Lucy said...

I'm here. I've just been immobilised by apathy...

 

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