My mother isn't a very nice person. She does have many qualities but niceness certainly isn't one of them. She will go out of her way to try to upset strangers --- it has become a hobby which brings her hours of pleasure. I've always found her behaviour very embarrassing.
Looking back, I think I've tried to compensate for her meanness by being exceptionally nice to everyone. Lately I'm starting to feel that maybe I've been too nice and my niceness is about to snap. Fantasies of ramming my shopping cart into the backs of other shoppers' feet have been creeping into my mind. The fantasy scares me.
Does it mean that deep down am I really a hurtful person like mommy dearest? Is it normal for nice people to think about injuring obese grocery shoppers --- who buy unhealthy amounts of high-fat foods? Would doing it just once get it out of my system or could it unleash a repressed dark side?
Original post and reply here:
http://www.askdog.com/2007/06/12/is-it-normal-for-nice-people-to-think-about-injuring-obese-grocery-shoppers/
