Why don't they have ecstasy aunts as well?

[j4]

It's happened quite frequently lately that I seem to have ended up accidentally trying to offer people advice. I should point out to anybody who might find themself in the situation of asking for (or receiving unsolicited) advice from me that I'm really not very good at giving advice. I try to say useful things because I care, but more often than not I think I just put my foot in it.

I was going to write a long essay on the giving and taking of advice, but right now I'm just feeling too sad about seeing things go wrong for lovely people. Sometimes I just want to hug the world and make everybody a cup of tea, but that really doesn't sit well with a fashionably and ironically cynical image, does it? So it's just as well I don't really have such an image.

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of "the agony and the ecstasy" and applying it to "agony aunt" (i.e. person who answers 'problems page' letters). It made more sense in my head, I think. :)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, we don't see that terminology on this side of the pond, so that was probably the source of my confusion.