I Don't Get People
You'd think with age, you would better understand human behavior, but "no...make that an emphatic "NO!" Sometimes I think it best to nod, tip your hat, smile and keep on moving. We as humans I swear are the weirdest group on the planet. You think you understand, as well as find some sort of commonality albeit a superficial or loving one and "boom" like thunder from the desert skies, out of nowhere, behavior one could have never imagined. Sometimes it would appear that it is easiest to just let whatever transpires between individuals do its own thing...no reliance, no depending, no expectations...just letting be what will be...in some ways it's like setting a protective shield in place "just in case" something goes awry.
It has become even more apparent to me that it is true, "If you can count on one hand the number of people you can truly call your friend or depend on, you are rich." The irony though of that statement is that you can think you know someone over the course of a lifetime only to find that you really didn't know whomever at all! Conversely, you can meet someone one day out of the blue and feel like you've known whomever forever..why? Because life is full of ironies, opposites, unexpectedness and things that turn your brain diagonally and make us gain a perspective that we could have never imagined.
So, for the record, truly, even though I thought I understood others, I frankly flat out just don't get people. At least though, I do get myself and what I'm made up of and as long as I keep moving in the right direction and understand what makes me who I am, I'm good with it.
It has become even more apparent to me that it is true, "If you can count on one hand the number of people you can truly call your friend or depend on, you are rich." The irony though of that statement is that you can think you know someone over the course of a lifetime only to find that you really didn't know whomever at all! Conversely, you can meet someone one day out of the blue and feel like you've known whomever forever..why? Because life is full of ironies, opposites, unexpectedness and things that turn your brain diagonally and make us gain a perspective that we could have never imagined.
So, for the record, truly, even though I thought I understood others, I frankly flat out just don't get people. At least though, I do get myself and what I'm made up of and as long as I keep moving in the right direction and understand what makes me who I am, I'm good with it.
