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The less we talk, the more we become sociable
When we don’t speak out, we leave for listeners the opportunity to think whatever they prefer to think about us. Who might be wondering about us? Only those, who is interested in us in one or another ways. More likely they will be thinking something they associate with us, they expect from us, they accept in us. Which in turn, could be something completely different from reality. But we may just leave it as it is, allowing perceptions to be created with less effect on us. Let things to be as they are.
The less words said, the more assumptions made. The broader your social circle.
I had a status message in my messenger “fed up to be nice”. Would you want to chat with someone, who has such advert? I’ve shortened it to “fed up to be”, thus creating an opportunity to start a conversation, as this statement implies some philosophical debates to be developed likely. More people would be tricked into this.
Now if I shorten status message even more: “fed up”. This should prompt for such enquires, as “what I fed up with”, “what’s happened” and “how’s life in general”…
Now you can see how giving out less information, broadening the area of possible ways to connect to me, I am suddenly become a highly social-able person indeed
Say less and you’ll be most favourite person on that party of life…
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Saw this movie the other day – “6 days 7 nights”, I think it called. Not too brain teaser. There was this scene: man and woman ended up alone on the inhabited island and the man was really trying hard to behave as a gentlemen, so the moment they’ve discovered that they haven’t got much chance to get away from the island, he walked into some bushes and then it was just lots of swearing, bush-crashing noises, etc coz he didn’t want to show his frustration in front of the lady…
Sometimes it does helps to go to the nearest bunch of bushes to fight your frustration on your own…then – walk out of it, smile and be loved by everyone again…
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A Halloween flashback: Terry Wogan on a radio told a Halloween joke:
“trick or treat” – door opens and a bunch of kids waiting there anticipating…
“I’d go for trick”, - says the man of a house, grabs their bag with treaties, collected so far, and shuts the door in front of their noses…
How long do you think it will take for those kids to finally realise what just had happened? And isn't it, what often happenned in real life anyway? Someone just grabs off our hands our treaties bag in the middle of a carnival...
[*laughs…he is really good, isn’t he, old Tog Terry?!]
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I’m subscribed to the mailing list “A.Word.A.Day”. Every day they send out a non-common word, explaining it’s meaning and other stuff about it as well. I found yesterday’s word particular interesting:
zabernism (ZAB-uhr-niz-uhm) noun
The misuse of military power; aggression; bullying.
[After Zabern, German name for Saverne, a village in Alsace, France.
In 1912, in this village, a German military officer killed a lame
cobbler who smiled at him.]
"Both countries have been slaves to Kruppism and Zabernism--because they were sovereign and free! So it will always be. So long as patriotic cant can keep the common man jealous of international controls over his belligerent possibilities, so long will he be the helpless slave of the foreign threat, and 'Peace' remain a mere name for the resting phase between wars."
H.G. Wells; In The Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace; 1918.
And what is Kruppism? It's an eponym, coined after Alfred Krupp (1812-1887), German industrialist and armament manufacturer. It implies indiscriminate trade in arms and war profiteering…
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just returned to add:
I know it's not my god damn business and I was going to stay aside from commenting on political issues...I just hope that people of America will make a right choice. Unfortunatelly, the current White House Boss has managed to make what should've been internal state affair, everyone's in the world god damn business by keeping fellow citizens paranoid and causing chaos in other places, while unable to fix things in his native one...
few questions out of pre-election campaign:
what's voting for bush got to do with religious duty?
how invading other countries liberates them?
...The USA cannot afford to re-elect Bush. There will be such a feeling of resentment and astonishment amongst vast numbers of people of the world, that the damage could be enormous for the country. It is also true though that many Americans appear oblivious to this danger...