Understanding the Mystery Which is Me
I’ve recently tried to become aware of my own personality traits. It’s pretty easy to decribe others but sometimes I think we become unaware of how other’s may see us. Here’s the most recent thing I’ve noticed about myself.
I’ve found that I become annoyed when I hear people describe their confusion for why things are the way they are. I often think, “Really?” You can’t come up with any reasons for why the world might operate the way it does? Is it just easier for you to say “I don’t get it?”
Maybe this has to do with another possibly annoying trait of mine which is that I can must ponder nearly every curiosity I have.
This is just a tiny example but it proves my point just fine:
This is a blog post from the Seattlest.com. It describes how the Pike Place Market celebrated their 11th Annual Daffodil Day by handing out free daffodils on the downtown corners of Seattle, WA. Around 30,000 flowers were given away throughout the city.
“We quickly discovered that there are two types of people in Seattle: those who brighten up when presented with free flowers on an otherwise drab corner, and those whose expressions wilt with cynicism or annoyance as they cross the street to avoid them.”
concerning the people who shied away from the free flowers…
Maybe they didn’t want to carry around fragile blooms all day. Maybe they’re worried about the seasonal evidence of climate change. Maybe they hate spring. We’ll never know.
They just can’t figure it out huh? Really? You’ve never realized how the sheer volume of people walking the sidewalks of Seattle every day seem to attract so many people desperate for…
- attention
- donations
- psychiatric care
- a religious congregation … ??
You’ve never seen someone on the street corner who seemed like they weren’t just on their way to work or waiting for a bus? Maybe they appeared like they were about to interrupt your day to speak to you about a subject you’d rather not tackle on your way into The Gap.
You think if you replace the person with someone holding a bucket of flowers that people will immediately think “Oh, that guy who was warning me of the End of Time is gone and now someone’s handing out free flowers!”
Even though that is in fact what’s going on, you still can’t consider why people might be a bit hesitant to take a flower without wondering if they’re required to stick around for a sermon or something?
I’ll give the author the benefit of the doubt—maybe they weren’t actually perplexed by this strange occurance—maybe that’s just how their writing spilled itself onto their blog.
But for all of you others who spend most of your day uninterested but also unsure by how you don’t just float up into the heavens like a balloon…please take a moment to be more like me….and think, ponder, investigate, google, and let no curiosity go un-thunk.