I sympathise with you and your bad day, I know what it's like to have a peculiar little incident de-rail your whole mood and I don't think there's anything silly about it: you thought life was sending you an unexpected bonus, you decided to tip and spread the love and then found the rug pulled from under your feet - that's disconcerting and upsetting and that's just that. You can try to downplay it but, if you're any way sensitive to other people (and I think the way the other people in your office obviously come to you when they're upset would seem to objectively indicate that you are), then you're going to be upset by people getting into trouble if there's a single jot you could've done to avoid it.
As for not talking about yourself or your life so much at the office, well, it's a choice; the fact that other people do, doesn't oblige you to reciprocate and by not doing so you're not holding out on them or depriving them (except perhaps of the pleasure of getting to know you better) but then, maybe, notwithstanding some loneliness, you don't want to be so well known at work (especially perhaps if you don't enjoy it).
Sometimes talking about those things that are worrying or upsetting a person can help, sometimes it just winds us up more and, if these issues are a topic of conversation in every venue of our lives, we never have space away from them.
Lastly, before I shut up and go away, and whilst still believing that you've had an upsetting day because upsetting stuff happened, can I throw out there the fact that I personally find myself feeling more sensitive to this sort of thing when I run out of my vitamin B6 supplement?
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Date: 2005-05-12 09:17 pm (UTC)As for not talking about yourself or your life so much at the office, well, it's a choice; the fact that other people do, doesn't oblige you to reciprocate and by not doing so you're not holding out on them or depriving them (except perhaps of the pleasure of getting to know you better) but then, maybe, notwithstanding some loneliness, you don't want to be so well known at work (especially perhaps if you don't enjoy it).
Sometimes talking about those things that are worrying or upsetting a person can help, sometimes it just winds us up more and, if these issues are a topic of conversation in every venue of our lives, we never have space away from them.
Lastly, before I shut up and go away, and whilst still believing that you've had an upsetting day because upsetting stuff happened, can I throw out there the fact that I personally find myself feeling more sensitive to this sort of thing when I run out of my vitamin B6 supplement?
Hoping your day brightens up