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Every Small Thing That’s Annoying me Right Now.
Going back to normal life is already testing my patience, and I need to rant.
Now that I’ve almost entirely re-entered the ‘normal' world, everything is starting to annoy me again. After having the luxury of being in my own space, without life’s daily annoyances to grind me down for well over a year, it’s been hard not to let my patience shatter in recent weeks by inconsiderate strangers.
I consider myself to be a nice person on the whole. I’m polite and don’t like to create problems for myself and others. But as my life gets busier and more back to ‘normal,’ I’ve been getting annoyed about plenty of things.
I guess you could refer to these ‘things’ as annoying habits committed by strangers that I happen to notice in everyday life. But, unfortunately, they happen to, or near me, almost daily and are starting to grind my gears for all the wrong reasons.
Finally, I need to vent and let this all out. Let me know if these irritate you, too.
Being unable to get off the train
As the train gradually pulls into the station and the blur of trees and blank, vacant faces suddenly become apparent, the last thing I want is to have a hard time getting off. I travel to work…