thing
Express Yourself
Gabe, double ii Piia’s 15 month old son,
can do sign language.
It’s a riot to see how he can say please, thank you
and most importantly - MORE!
(pics to follow soon)
Got me thinking on how we all communicate
with each other.
The other day, Chris was teasing Bobby
and I about our habit of using the word
“thing” for every little thing.
It’s our multi-purpose noun, adjective,verb…
as in, “Babe, go get that thing on the table”
pretty standard, even though there’s 15 things
as usual, on the dining room table …
or more likely, “I’m feeling kinda thing right now”
and he’ll know that it’s time to go home
We don’t do it as much nowadays, as we are
so in tune, he can almost guess what I need/want
before I can even think to articulate it.
But communicating with each other isn’t
always easy. And I am a lazy talker (as evidenced
by the “thing” catchall phrase). Bob said
something that really caught my attention.
He said don’t apologize to me
for things that you really don’t care about.
I’d rather you be straight up and disagree
with me, than to just say sorry when you don’t mean it
And it made me think about mindlessly agreeing with
things, or saying something to just get by, get along,
or cuz your not fully paying attention to something
That’s not really communicating is it?
And then there’s this type of communication.
Do you know that I am the type of person
who usually “pre-writes” the messages
I write in birthday cards?
So it usually takes me ages to
write my blog posts …
But a big part of this is cuz I use this space to marshall
my thoughts and put together a public show of my
ideas, etc. Everyone does it, in real life, not necessarily on a blog.
it’s just funny when you think you are expressing yourself,
but it’s such a small slice of who you are or what you think.
Self-editing, or filtering …..
Like there are chunks of my life, obviously,
that certainly don’t get published to the world
or even discussed among friends, or rather
even contemplated on my own…
In short, sort of a, uh, thing.
But it makes one think about how
we compartmentalize our lives, our thoughts
even ourselves.
All I wanna know is what’s the sign language
gesture for “thinking too many thoughts so
early in the morning?”