Watching what I say

[outlier_lynn]

I start sentences with "I'm amazed that ..." or "I'm surprised that ..."

I've been listening for that to see what it is that I find so amazing or surprising. I wanted to know if I'm amazed or surprised by many, many things or the same few things over and over.

It's the same few things over and over. In fact, it is two things over and over.

A. The violent nature of human beings.
B. The preoccupied nature of human beings.

Almost always it is one of those two things about single individuals (including myself) or about groups of people.

This is clearly a case where I keep wanting "what is" to be some other way.

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[godai.livejournal.com]

At my first full time job after college I was banned from using the phrase

"Actually, ..."

I used it one to many times when making a correction.