Aw, Damnit!

I have Whitney's cell phone ringer, "Don't Fear the Reaper", stuck in my head. But I don't really know the song, so I just hear the 10 seconds of her cell phone ringer over and over. `^_^

It was a good Labor Day. Went home for a while and played around on my Xbox 360 (I'm horribly ashamed to say that I'm actually kinda liking Riiiiiiiiiiidge Racer 6). Then headed back to Whitney's for dinner at her dad's (awesome food). Heh, Whitney showed him my tye-dye toga. `^_^

Went back to Whitney's and watched Breastmen. Pretty good movie. I also bogarted Whitney's Marvel Zombies hardcover that Charles got her for her birthday. Good read. :)

And...here we are at work. At least the day's moving along pretty fast. I'm getting pretty excited for my new schedule, so I can't wait for that.

This week...let's see. GameNoc, lunch and dinner with Whitney, karaoke, and either play or Puyallup Fair.

And though I already wished it to her, happy birthday to Whitney! :) I love you, babe! :)

So far a bit of a lousy turn out for the Mario Party tournament...I'll have to start harassing people. :)

Back to work!

A Question To Ponder

I've been kind of thinking about the role of being a "protector". This is regardless of being a friend, significant other, family member, whatever.

I think a lot of times when we see something that we perceive (but may or may not be) to be a threat, a threat that is targeting a loved one, one has the instinct to jump in and challenge that threat.

How often, though, is that help needed or wanted? At what point does one go from being a "protector" to just "over-protective"?

I like to think that with most of my friends that I generally don't need to jump in. But if I do, then I like to believe I'm pretty good at reading a situation and that I'll jump in only if it's something I feel needs immediate attention (such as someone getting the crap beat out of them) or that help is wanted (such as being asked by the person facing the threat).

I guess I have concerns about over-protectiveness. Back in the day, yeah, I probably wasn't the most secure and felt I need to "protect" Mika all the time. I'd probably keep Mika away from people (friends or not) that I felt might've threatened (in my eyes, at least) our relationship. That was pretty wrong of me since she wasn't an object, and that was basically how I treated her in those situations.

Nowadays I'm a lot more secure with myself and my relationship with Whitney. I might step in, but only if something from paragraph four existed.

No, this has nothing to do with my current situation (as in, this isn't aimed at anyone in a situation directly related to me). It's just some thoughts I've been having and felt like getting it written down. Looking at this, the logic of all this might seem obvious, but that doesn't always seem to be the case.

Thoughts? Where do you think the line for being protective is? Have people been angry and/or grateful for your protectiveness?

Progress...

I'm at 136 e-mails in my inbox, down from 200 a few days ago. My inbox might actually be clean here soon. `^_^