Why don't they have ecstasy aunts as well?

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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.

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[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Much as an agony aunt attempts to restore people from agony to the status quo, I wonder whether an ecstasy (fx: corrects spelling based on subject line of post) aunt might deal with those currently "suffering" from excess ecstasy? (Presumably by channeling their exuberant energies into projects useful for the world, rather than randomly insulting them.)

I like your attitude and agree that there cannot be enough joy in the world. I am here with Meg for the next two weeks, so assume I'm all right, Jack, and don't worry about me. :-)