Andrew J. Lederer

seemed to think I meant, in yesterday's post, that I had never before understood anyone's perspective apart from my own.

Of course, I was referring to a specific set of circumstances where the other party's attitude was upsetting me, partly because I just didn't like it, but largely because I couldn't understand how someone who had experienced so many of the same things that I had could come to such a different conclusion about them (and me).

I still don't think the other person is right. Quite the opposite. But I was able to figure out how a person in this situation could come to those conclusions and that took me out of the realm of "I just don't get it"-instigated hyperventilation.

By the way, this might be a good time for me to mention what should be obvious, but from the flack I've gotten, must not be: This blog is my perspective.

I am honest here but it's an honest accounting based on the way I see things, not a documentarian's clean rendering of events from an outside vantage point (which may be impossible to achieve in any event).

Someone told me recently that it's not all about me; that it's very rarely about me.

Well, not here.

Here, it's always about me.

This is the one corner of the world where my perspective, by definition, prevails. (And that's just in the Andrew J. Lederer blog. Even the main Chortle blog diminishes my primacy. Just the other day, one of the other bloggers unfairly decided to make my whining look trivial by getting sick.)