I tend to not make New Year's Resolutions....for many reasons. I think the last real New Year's Resolution I made was about ten years ago. The resolution was to be nicer. I am still working on it. I thought I had made progress, but two recent conversations have made me wonder if I have made any progress.
Conversation 1:
I was chatting with someone I met recently and he told me that my words were like daggers. He said that because I am small, I belittle people as soon as I meet them and therefore preemptively defend myself.
Conversation 2:
An friend of mine was asking me if I watch a particular tv show. He said I remind him of the main character. Since I had not seen it, I asked him to describe the character. He responded with Wikipedia's description which was that the character was a misanthrope. I suspected that I should be offended. Unfortunately I did not know the definition of misanthrope.... But I looked it up. A misanthrope is someone who hates or mistrusts humankind. Grrr....is that me? I pretended to be really offended and he admited that he might have been wrong to call me a misanthrope.... But am I really one?
Morale of the conversations: I have not finished with that New Year's Resolution yet.
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