I meditate upon the strangest things. It's not something I do consciously, like I don't plan about "oh, now I'm going to think about this" - it just happens most of the time.
To think is to form or conceive in the mind. Use the mind, have in the mind, have an opinion, reflect, consider (Thorndike Barnhart Desk Dict. circa 1951) AND yet I know people who think (no pun intended) it's a terrible thing to think!
Of course as I mentioned in a previous blog or two, these folks who don't "go up into the head without adult supervision" usually and continually find themselves in one predicament after the other. (You may see them scratch their head as they explain how they don't know what happened) Usually they find someone or something to blame.
O.K. getting back to "so you think you KNOW everything?" I had a vision in my mind of a person who has an answer for everything. I'm talking about the kind of individual that doesn't just have an answer but has THE answer. Do you know one?
These folks who always have THE answer are a peculiar type and usually don't have many friends, because as I have learned over the years- when you know everything your personality becomes rigid.
When you're rigid you take on a SEVERE persona and people can't stand to be around you, you become a feelingless person with no apathy or compassion or empathy. You can't render a HUMAN opinion to a conversation, you lack depth, experience and intuition. Your responses are one liners or quotes that carry depth and weight but which for you are intimidating enough that no one will challenge you. They want to, believe me but you are a manipulative creature!
When you know everything you become addicted to being depended upon - you feed on people who are weak and people who seem to NEED you. The problem is that since you lack character you wind up taking advantage of those who are looking for hope, freedom and safety. You make hostages, not friends.
The problem with knowing everything is that there comes a time when your opinion or advice is not asked for- AND YOU PANIC. NOW you "go into your mind" like a paranoid litte kid who didn't get picked for the lead part in the school play. Maybe you start to doubt your intelligence and if still you aren't getting the recognition you feel you deserve you seek out former friends or foes for that matter and convince them with sweet talk and manipulation that YOU need them. Once you get them back into your fold they become persuaded to adore you and honor you AND you become disillusioned that everybody loves you. What happens is that you are so sick and evil, these folks begin to feel sorry for you. You are euphoric on self-centered, egotistical pride. The truth is YOU love yourself and that about sums up the love thing.
But in my mind I saw you standing there, all alone. There was no one around to CHEER you on or worship you. You kind of kept spinning around to see if someone was there, but no one was. You raised your arms up into the air as if to say "why isn't anyone paying attention to me" and you turned and looked to the left then the right but still no one there. Now you place your hands on your hips. Poor me, poor you.
It's lonely at the top, no?
It's terrible being right all the time, right?
It's frustrating being a "somebody" amongst the nobody's?
And so you think you know everything.
tat2guru
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should be not victory, but progress" [Joseph Joubert Pensées]
To think is to form or conceive in the mind. Use the mind, have in the mind, have an opinion, reflect, consider (Thorndike Barnhart Desk Dict. circa 1951) AND yet I know people who think (no pun intended) it's a terrible thing to think!
Of course as I mentioned in a previous blog or two, these folks who don't "go up into the head without adult supervision" usually and continually find themselves in one predicament after the other. (You may see them scratch their head as they explain how they don't know what happened) Usually they find someone or something to blame.
O.K. getting back to "so you think you KNOW everything?" I had a vision in my mind of a person who has an answer for everything. I'm talking about the kind of individual that doesn't just have an answer but has THE answer. Do you know one?
These folks who always have THE answer are a peculiar type and usually don't have many friends, because as I have learned over the years- when you know everything your personality becomes rigid.
When you're rigid you take on a SEVERE persona and people can't stand to be around you, you become a feelingless person with no apathy or compassion or empathy. You can't render a HUMAN opinion to a conversation, you lack depth, experience and intuition. Your responses are one liners or quotes that carry depth and weight but which for you are intimidating enough that no one will challenge you. They want to, believe me but you are a manipulative creature!
When you know everything you become addicted to being depended upon - you feed on people who are weak and people who seem to NEED you. The problem is that since you lack character you wind up taking advantage of those who are looking for hope, freedom and safety. You make hostages, not friends.
The problem with knowing everything is that there comes a time when your opinion or advice is not asked for- AND YOU PANIC. NOW you "go into your mind" like a paranoid litte kid who didn't get picked for the lead part in the school play. Maybe you start to doubt your intelligence and if still you aren't getting the recognition you feel you deserve you seek out former friends or foes for that matter and convince them with sweet talk and manipulation that YOU need them. Once you get them back into your fold they become persuaded to adore you and honor you AND you become disillusioned that everybody loves you. What happens is that you are so sick and evil, these folks begin to feel sorry for you. You are euphoric on self-centered, egotistical pride. The truth is YOU love yourself and that about sums up the love thing.
But in my mind I saw you standing there, all alone. There was no one around to CHEER you on or worship you. You kind of kept spinning around to see if someone was there, but no one was. You raised your arms up into the air as if to say "why isn't anyone paying attention to me" and you turned and looked to the left then the right but still no one there. Now you place your hands on your hips. Poor me, poor you.
It's lonely at the top, no?
It's terrible being right all the time, right?
It's frustrating being a "somebody" amongst the nobody's?
And so you think you know everything.
tat2guru
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should be not victory, but progress" [Joseph Joubert Pensées]
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