When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.'
You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.
I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.
You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff.
I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.