Unusual beliefs. Does anyone else who is struggling in life find that if you give your enemies (for want of a better word) even one molecule of attention then they act like they have the right to go all out against you? But I’m actually having a good night. Just got back from dropping off my sisters dog so when she gets home from the airport, she will have a dog that went to the bathroom, is fed, and watered.
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Never mind. MAYBE I’m wrong. It just seems if you give a small minority of people an inch…?
I think you just have to rise above it all. I tend to rely on humour although probably too much. As I tend to deflect with it even in therapy. It’s also the last thing to go with me and with my wild imagination I know I’m much more creative then most muggles.
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I tend to feel more threatened by people that I live in close proximity to. It’s the coming and going and noise. It all can get on my nerves. What I tell myself is that they are just going about their own business not focusing on anything else. They aren’t concerned with me, so I shouldn’t be concerned with them.
Maybe try to distract yourself with another thought every time you think about them. Develop an interest that is healthier for you to obsess about, like a band. You can then turn your attention to researching them online.
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Rise above people who are using me to my face and not even trying to hide it? It gets tiring and is unfair. Sometimes I think all the things you guys have told me that are delusions are actually true. It sure SEEMS like my neighbors are thinking of me and waiting until I give up to bug me. EVERYBODY wants to bug someone who will just give up. They are wearing me down by being nasty and mean.
I guess I don’t have any (for want of a better word) enemies so I don’t know what to tell you. It sounds horribly aggravating that they are so blatant about it.
You’re telling me. I’m being discriminated against blatantly. Enemy is a strong word but it may fit.
I don’t know what to say, Nick. I hope you to ignore them and to be cool. Just bear their noises for a period of time while considering them as unreasonable ■■■■■■■■…I guess what you could do over their noises was just making huge noise back…This kind of fighting is ridiculous…
I agree with your whole answer green6. It may be ridiculous but there’s nothing funny about it. It’s no coincidence that I hear noises meant for me at my weakest moments like when I’m trying to get along. I read yoiur post and relaxed and like clockwork: BOOM.
This is my life. I’m trying to survive. They push and push. I can’t believe that these people would still pull this crap after 6 years. They don’t get embarrassed about anything or any of their actions.
I know it hard but you should try not to be sensitive to those noises, not to think about why they made these noises. Just think they are lunatics and not worth your attention. Stop responding to them by making your noises. Try this for 3 months and see what will happen after your peaceful stance. If you cann’t do this, I will think you don’t have a good mind or not good enough to quit a nonsense fight.
Nick, years ago, my upstairs neighbor used to wake me up every night with a huge bang on the floor/ceiling over my bed. I would jump out of my skin, then fall back asleep, and she’d do it again. As well as that she and her friends used to run up and down the stairs so it sometimes sounded like a herd of horses. I hated her for years. Then finally, one night, after the first bang on the floor, I realized that she was only dropping her shoes on the floor before she got into bed. The problem was that the house was wooden-framed, so it was like living INSIDE a huge drum for us downstairs. She wasn’t doing it on purpose. She had no idea how it was affecting us. Once I realized that, first, the noise bothered me less, and second, when it got really out of hand (her son bouncing a ball indoors or drumming on the pipes), I would go upstairs and politely ask her to stop him. She always apologized and stopped him.
What I am saying here is, your suffering, the noise is real, but your neighbors may just be unaware how much they are bugging you.
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OK, thanks. That’s what my sisters say also. Back to the drawing board.
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Guess what happened with an enemy last week? After getting the evil eye and attitude I smiled. 
That person become 
and walked away. Smiling back at muggles works. 
BTW - My homework assignments are to practice smiling in a mirror. 
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.
Yoko Ono
And she wasn’t the sole reason the Beatles broke up.
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