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[fox]

Dudes, it's not like ninety bucks is a trivial amount of money, but it's kind of not an awful lot if it means you can party with Nate and the gang.

No, seriously. This is a thing the night before the Inauguration. Who wants to come?

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[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

(And, no; wanting to enjoy it just makes me feel even more wretched when I don't. Also guilty, because then I've set out to do something-- to wit, have fun-- and Failed, which makes me a great big failure with failsauce.)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Well, that's where the self-awareness has to kick back in. There are times that you have to know that just determining you'd like to have fun isn't going to be enough to do it, and cut your losses ahead of time. See above re: Fox not going to cons. Right? So in this case, the failure would be a failure to respect your own limits.

In short: another big step is the one where you realize that brute force, determination, willpower, whatever you want to call it, can't get everything done. Given that you have on more than one occasion described me as the possessor of more willpower than anyone else you know, perhaps you will take my word on this point.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I know I can't make a situation pleasant just by deciding it should be.

But if I'm going to cut my losses and stop throwing effort at trying to make myself into the sort of person who enjoys that sort of thing, I should also be able to extirpate the desire to be that person. Sighing wistfully and regretting that I am simply not capable of that sort of fun accomplishes nothing, and I should at least have the willpower to be able to knock it off.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. Again: speaking as the Dean of Willpower around here, no. Alas. It takes so much willpower to be stoic and play through that sort of thing; I don't know how much more it would take not to need to. (Tread carefully, because the next thing you'll say is that I am some sort of failure for not having the willpower to quit wanting the things I want, and if I don't have enough willpower, then who on earth does? ;-) )