Similarity is not a problem – or is it?

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When you ponder life you most often run across things us psychology professionals call issues. Issues might be small or large, personal or interpersonal, or interpersonal within some imagined region of a diseased psyche of just one person. Worry not: we are not discussing your problems this time. We are discussing mine. Or, to be exact, I am bringing them to your attention. Is it fleeting? You just wish. A4001004

I have several problems. I would not be sharing this, but having a website makes it ridiculously easy for me to write about anything and publish it for a nominal fee – potentially to be read by millions or even billions of people. This makes me think my problems are important – even more important than before.

Now that you have read this far you will be expecting a payback. You never thought I would only be writing this to underline your lack of personal incentive, did you? So there! We all learn something new every day! Consider: I am a professional psychologist – or claim to be – and I have access to a website I can edit at will. A website you can only read (unless you are one of those ungodly hackers out to destroy the free world – free the way I define it). I have ideas. I have problems. Did you seriously expect a payback?

In this world of ours, mental problems are abundant. I have a lot of those myself. In this world of ours, ideas are not so abundant, and most of them are not even worth mentioning. My ideas are brilliant. My problems, however, are so heavy that the ideas don’t often have a chance to get to the fore. Could this be true? What do you think?

Whichever the case, there is no clear way to determine whether one person’s view would matter. Let us, therefore, close the issue with this: together for a better tomorrow.