July 6, 2009
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All colliding at this moment
A person may seem amazing, because they are an artist or a speaker, and we know them from reading about them. But they are just a normal person, who wakes up and lives their day, just like everyone else. They might even like playing cards.
I like art. Art is anything that contributes to the idea of you as a person. What people think of when they think of you is the total effect of your art. Thus every word you say is art. Every face you make is art. Your whole life is one grand artistic performance.
There is a difference between following someone’s reasoning and a bit of reasoning occurring to you. If you follow it, you are reading the way they thought, but if it occurs to you, you are in the situation in which that conclusion made sense. It usually turns out that we believe what occurs to us, not what we follow.
It’s good when someone acts the same way in public all the time, because then you can tell when they say something to you which is really honest, because it will be breaking this persona.
If you never reveal your intentions, people will never know when you fail.
Your need to seem smart is not as important as my need to understand your argument. Just say what you mean.
It is hard to tell whether what someone is saying is everything they are thinking.
If people don’t like it when their friends talk bad about them behind their back, just think how upset people would be if we had access to each others’ thoughts!
And that is all this moment has in store for us. Ciao out.
Comments (4)
This is really rather interesting. Did a particular event inspire this entry?
“Your need to seem smart is not as important as my need to understand your argument. Just say what you mean.”
Heh. Yes, that’s so true.
@Saakara -
Not in particular, no; most of these things were thought in separate situations, and then found themselves next to one another only in this post. Sometimes a post which is separated out like this is stream of consciousness, other times not.
By the way, several friends of mine died laughing upon being shown the post about the apartment pets. I recovered, but barely.
@StrokeofThought -
Glad you liked it!