As a (roughly) centrist myself, I don't think they hate us. They just see us as an obstacle to progress. Which we are, but we're also an obstacle to backsliding. Even from within it's easy to see that centrism is a weak position and it's not surprising it would be despised by those with strong convictions.
But me, I'm fine with being an obstacle. If they think their way is better, they can prove it; then they'll have my support.
Huh, I've always been a tea drinker rather than coffee, and I've always found tea more calming that coffee or caffeinated sodas. This could be why.
It could also help explain why my mother, who I've suspected for a while was undiagnosed, favored tea over coffee all her life and really went off the rails once she developed a caffeine allergy and stopped drinking it.
For once it's not just work! There's still plenty of work, though: Monday is the first day of school and we're pulling out all the school uniforms, making sure everything fits, seeing where the gaps are. Backpacks are already stuffed with necessary supplies. So the last thing is to soak up as much pool and waterslide fun as we can!
If I know long long it takes to get somewhere, I will somehow find myself leaving the house with exactly that amount of time, leaving no space for delays. This is bad. So instead I've started saying "I'm going to leave at this time, which is definitely more time than I need" and then not looking at a clock when I get there so I never find out how much closer I could cut it.
The other strategy is to plan to eat when I get there, before whatever it is starts. I will be motivated to get there with enough time to eat.
I'm not currently depressed. I do experience depression but not constantly. Two of my children and many of my coworkers do not deal with chronic depression (as far as I can tell).
She'll need to work with the home country to get baby issued appropriate citizenship and identity documents, but just to travel home? Birth cert and mother's docs should be enough.
It's cleaning day! I try to make day one of my (Monday-Tuesday) weekend the day I ball hard on laundry and yardwork, then in the afternoon I pick one room and deep clean it and in the evenings I clean out the fridge. Then on the second day I do paperwork and make the kind of phone calls where they put you on hold while playing videogames.
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and some guy who's name is harder to remember.
An inventor uploads a schematic to the Internet for a cheap, easy-to-assemble device that lets anyone (or almost anyone) "step" into parallel earths. A nearly infinite stretch of untamed wilderness sees people abandoning the polluted, crowded, government-run Old Earth in search of new opportunities. The catch: No iron or iron alloys can "step" across, sending these new earths back to the bronze age.
Also: Zeppelins that are also reincarnated Buddhists that are also the first true machine intelligence; robot cats; libertarian communes; sapient nonhuman primates; sapient nonhuman non-primates; radioactive ziggurats; space programs to parallel moons; and grumpy survival chicks.
As a (roughly) centrist myself, I don't think they hate us. They just see us as an obstacle to progress. Which we are, but we're also an obstacle to backsliding. Even from within it's easy to see that centrism is a weak position and it's not surprising it would be despised by those with strong convictions.
But me, I'm fine with being an obstacle. If they think their way is better, they can prove it; then they'll have my support.