Oooooh! I'm on Plenty of Fish! Look at my profile! I'm so whimsical and lighthearted! I have shirtless pictures of me doing a handstand! The only thing I want on a date is to laugh! I have a really good orthodontist! I'm one of the 95% of people that count rock climbing as a pastime!
Anyway...
That was cynical, so let's turn this ship around, shall we?!
*turns ship around*
*accidentally mows down herd of dolphin*
*contemplates if a group of dolphins is actually called a herd*
*is too lazy to wiki that shit*
*ewwww dolphin guts everywhere!*
*ok, that last one wasn't even an action*
*Damnit!*
Phew, ship turned around! Anyway, I was on the bus yesterday and saw some dude with a plastic bag and immediately thought, "What a dick. Everybody knows to carry reusable bags with them these days!"
Then I thought to myself, "Hey, do YOU carry around a bag ALL the time? What if this guy does it, like, 364 days a year and this was the ONE day he forgot?"
Then I realized that I'd made the choice to think the worst of him. Oh, it was judgey. E'er so judgey. So I've made the decision that from now on whenever I see a stranger or anyone for that matter in a potentially negative way that I will assume better of them unless proven otherwise.
I feel we should all try this together as a social experiment. It doesn't mean bad things won't happen or that the positivity theorem won't ever be disproved. Still, it might help. As an example, imagine if a person who suspects their partner is cheating decides to not be a psycho bitch and instead just goes, "Hey, babe. I have this suspicion. Is it right?" He might be cheating, in which case, ya know, freak the fuck out. If he hasn't been though you've just saved yourself a lot of crazy bitch internal stress. Ya welcome.
Or another example, imagine if I have, like, three THOUSAND people that read this blog but only 17 follow it cause the rest are too intimidated by the awesomeness of my tag labels.
Anyway, try this in earnest. Report back and tell me how you felt doing it.
2 comments:
you are so right about stressing out because you think your partner is cheating. I've been there and it sucks. I think the more a person freaks out trying to find out, the less likely it is that their partner will tell them, or admit to it. If you ask them nicely and they say they are cheating, then you have reason to freak out and can really nut up... Oh yeah, I think a "herd" of dolphins is actually called a flock! yuk yuk...
I generally give people the benefit of the doubt, but your post reminded me that's not the norm, so I'm gonna assume the worst for the next little while. For example, I'm gonna assume you DON'T always have a reusable bag... and the number of days you actually do carry one around is.... slightly fewer than 364!
tee hee
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