Tiki Bitches About...

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That seems really one-sided to me.

No. You don't get it. It is to your benefit. I am giving you helpful advice about how to behave in life.

People annoy you. There are only two choices:

1. Get them to stop annoying you.

2. Stop being annoyed.

Can't tell you how much easier it is to achieve #2.

You know what I've got now? I've got two adult children living in my house RENT FREE -- and I have a bad mortgage and no job.

They leave the lights on. They don't clean anything. They don't DO anything around the house, unless they get paid for it. They wake me up all hours of the night and morning. They break stuff. They take stuff. They borrow stuff. They lose stuff. They bring smelly toddlers into the house and hide dirty diapers in a trashcan in the corner of the living room. They play the TV and video games at maximum volume and never turn them off when they leave. Their baby mama stays over and goes into a two-hour crying jag at 5am. They forget to flush and leave pee fermenting in the toilet. They eat the food I bought for myself. They park behind me in the driveway. They have top-volume screaming arguments that make no sense and move from in the house, out into public. They appreciate nothing I do, except for when I hand them a plate of home-cooked dinner, at which time I get a cursory thank you, which I'm very grateful for.

If they were chatty at me in the morning it would be interesting, because most days we don't say two words to each other. I would welcome it, actually.

But me, I'm chill baby. At the end of the day, all this nonsense, it all rolls off my back. I complain from time to time, and I'd rather it not happen, but I can manage. It doesn't bug me deep down to the bone. Because the real idea, the thing that actually matters is housing these kids while they have a shot at becoming successful adults. I love their mom and I'm doing it for her.

Being chill is, I believe, a good way to be. So that's what I suggest to you. If it feels like a burden, or an endless compromise in which you lose, you aren't getting it yet.