Goodwill Ranting

Goodwill and Ranting : Two very different words, worlds apart, and yet they seem to blend so beautifully in some specific situations ( which we will come to, obviously! ) .




Goodwill : the word to describe friendliness and good reputation.
Ranting : The word to describe what the red demon ( anger, if you will ) produces.
Now, let us make a pair; not unlike bread and butter but not nearly as nice!


Someone said, "I would rather have a handful of very close friends than a bunch of fair-weather friends."
 Now, what if the handful of your very close friends start to give you the impression that you will be left with only a.... ummmm..... a fingerful ( pardon the improvisation! ) ?
 You obviously have goodwill for your buds; and now they have compelled you to rant, to rant like you have never ranted before. Heady mixture, I tell you.
 You don't want them to come to any harm, but then you yourself get angry at their behaviour.
< A rock > < You > < A hard place > . Oops!! You start losing it, and before you know it, Murphy is proved right again. You are a lost cause. Fear not, for there is a solution, which will appear after a bit more of... you guessed it.... Ranting!


Now imagine yourself in a class where you can't relate to almost anyone. The only two friends you have in that class aren't what you'd call even a faint taste of salvation. One makes you think that an echo point would make a better conversationalist and the other makes you wonder why he would kill a bug with a makeshift blowtorch.
 Two very good people at heart, interesting in their own ways, but there's something missing and there are lots of undesired things that you would want missing. The same thing. Everyday. Weekends then seem like visits to Disneyland. Sooner or later, however good they may be, you start the goodwill ranting; and there you are, losing it again.

Let us take yet another situation. You are a very active guy. Active is an understatement. Four to five thought processes go on in your mind simultaneously. But alas, you are not able to follow even one through and through.
Anyway, you are the one who does most of the housework, be it taking garbage out or setting the table. And now, out of the blue, you are in a mountain of debt and lets not start about why your dad isn't being told about it. On top of that, you are losing and breaking stuff.
Everyone around you overlooks the work that you do and jumps on you at the negatives.
And then the dam breaks. Goodwill ranting becomes the order of the day.


These are some voices from my fingerful. There is a solution out there. At least, there seems to be one; and its been working out pretty fine. The magic word here is passive. Be passive. Don't stop caring for the people altogether; but stop caring only for those characteristics which make them only think of themselves, for those annoying habits and for those not-seeing-the-bigger-picture minds.


As said by Rudyard Kipling, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you will be a man ( or a woman, you should know! ) .