Monday, September 16, 2013

Let people talk

So often we try to predict what they have to say.  The worst are the finishers, those people who finish your sentence like if I am talking to you now and you were a finisher, you'd be . . . .  Sometimes finishers are right.  I like to trip them up.  Not always possible.  We all like to feel a connectedness.  I like to add observations and experiences of my own that confirm what the person has to say even when I don't agree with them at all.  As you can imagine, this leads to all kinds of misinterpretations.  Everyone's my friend because I never contradict them which probably comes from my upbringing.  My mother never liked to be contradicted so even when she was saying things about me or my friends that I found abhor ant, I would just listen. 

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