The Time Machine
When my ex used to hear people say to me, “What a calm person you are, so chilled, so patient,” he would burst out laughing—on a good day. Because anyone who really knows me knows that when my fuse decides to drop by, it’s best to find the nearest shelter. And my fuse visits quite often—only we’ve just gotten older, he and I, and we learned how to develop a healthy relationship :-) Typical Capricorn, by the way: They look calm and quiet, but say something wrong… whoa, and the show begins. And when I want something, or when emotion rises, the very last thing I want to do is wait. But life and the world have taught me that in the end, when I’m impulsive and don’t wait a moment for the emotion to calm, or for that sudden craving pounding inside me to pass, or for the words that just want to burst out of my mouth to pause a little, the one who suffers most is me. “Eat an olive,” as they say. For the emotional person— and here I mean someone with an emotional awareness system— there i...