I could fix you if you would let me

I'm a fairly empathetic person--i feel bad when people get into situations that I have ever been in before, though I have one clause to that statement: they have to be attempting to get beyond the situation and progressing, otherwise if they are just being miserable I don't feel for them because I have always tried to get out of situations I didn't like.
In any case, I feel there are a lot of things that I have done in my life and so I often find it easy to relate to people.
But there is always one side effect to being this way. I get really frustrated with people at times because I have a solution that will fix or aid them in their problem and yet I feel as though a lot of my advice and help is rejected on account of my poor persuasion powers at the tone of delivery.

Sometimes i think it might just be my ethos that I don't portray correctly to send people the message that "look, I've been there done that", or perhaps people look at other areas of my life and think: "why would I trust him, he's kinda shady?" I would hope the persuasion is on the fault of my character and not because I failed to persuade with a good verbal argument; although I hate that my questionable character at times could prevent people from believing what I have to say. Quintillion was right a good life is more persuasive than any verbal argument.

With that in mind I think I'm going to expand this blog to also include small anecdotes and thoughts of mine (it already does that), so that there is a public place of record of my life and hopefully that record will help me to be persuasive with other things.

And to start it all off, I want to say that I have always had good intentions. --If good intentions was all that it took to be ethical, I'd be the tops; but life isn't that easy. I'm a utilitarian, as I said previously, and if it doesn't bring more good for more people then your intentions fall pretty flat. But I think it's important to note that I get very moral when I am the cause of bad things, and often times those bad effects or the possible bad effects, deter me from doing a lot of things until I can prove that they'll be more good than bad.


I would honestly love to spend my life devoted to helping other people. If I can find a way to make a living at it I definitely will do it, but it's a matter of making money doing it because I just don't see it as very beneficial to large amounts of people if I am unable to take care of myself and have to have other people take care of me so that I can take care of them.--kinda goes against the tribal system doesn't it? (shamans, medicine men, chiefs, etc. staying at home sending others to do the hunting for them so that they can help the people with other things) We did after all get away from the tribal system when technology advanced, so I assume it's generally a good thing.