The simplicity matters of life are rather complex. Rather, what should be simple has been made to be very complex and confusing. Why is this? It is because everybody messes up and makes it as such. Like introductions are complex matters because weirdo psychiatrists have made “studies” that allow people to look beyond what truly should matter. Here are a few instances:
1. Two individuals meet at a BYU football game. They are sitting in one of the multiple student sections and during a brief commercial break, when the purple pants man is standing on the field, a guy turns to the girl beside him (unknown to him before the game) and talks with her. They hit it off fairly well. Then the game resumes. The girl, smitten with this gentleman, tries to carry on various conversations with him, only he wont look her in the eye and only answered in short and brief responses that barely filled the full question. She leaves with her roommates terribly distraught that he was so uncommittal. She later explains to her roommates that he didn’t even keep eye contact; there must be something that he was unwilling to share!
2. A male student spent a long night doing homework and the next day was fighting hard not to fall asleep in one of his classes. The girl that sat behind him noticed and noted it in the back of her mind. A few days later, the guy is sitting next to the girl and at the end of class asks if she would like to do something that upcoming weekend. She replies that she would rather not. She expounds upon it by saying that she really did not want to get involved with someone who was irresponsible.
3. A female BYU student woke up ten minutes after her first class had begun, so she grabbed the first thing she found… which happened to be the same shirt she wore the day before, and threw her hair into a messy bun and ran out the door. She got to class a few minutes later, looking disheveled, but there. The guy that she had been flirting with for a week noticed and was rather disgusted that she wore the same shirt. He quit flirting with her, because of her apparent lack of hygiene
4. In the BYU library, a young woman is studying at a table. She is in the process of revising a paper for the millionth time and has red highlighted areas peppered through out-simply because she does not like the wording or the innotation of the writing. The area she is studying is fairly full. A guy walks in and looks for a place to sit. The girl with the peppered-red paper is sitting at a table by herself, so the guy decides to sit there as well. He sits on the same side as her, and stretches out his hand to her. She, while raising an eyebrow, shakes it. Meanwhile the man whispers what his name is and states that he is junior in the college of humanities. She smiles politely, but is thinking to herself that she would really like it if she could remember the word that seemed to fit perfectly before he showed up. He continued on and inquired as to her name. She replied. Coaxing more information out of her, he asks what she is studying, her college status, her age, and a few other things. She answers the questions fully, but rather briefly…she really wanted to get back to her paper. This guy says, noting her lack of verbose answers, “Well, then.”
In innocent misunderstanding, she asks, “What?”
“Since you asked I will tell you. You are not a very friendly person. First your handshake should have been enough to let me know. But then you refused to answer my questions. I hope you have a nice night. I am going to go find somewhere else to study.”
And he left the girl slightly confused by what happened.
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So why do these things happen? Because a person somewhere in the world…Sigmund Freud perhaps…decided that life was too simple the way people just accepted slip ups or odd idiosyncrasies. I say, “Blah,” to them all!
7 comments:
I think we need to add a mandatory class in manners to the one about tact...seriously people!
Hey Maria, you have a nice "smile." (hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge)
I must first state that I have no idea who you are talking about, but I know how it feels. There seems to be an epidemic of the idiocy disease. People just have too high expectations. So what if you wear the same shirt two days is a row. Everyone does it! It's all about the turn it inside out and thus, new shirt. And if you're hit on while studying in the library, duh, you're studying. Get over. When the day is done, then you can walk to the CONE together and get an ice cream. However, if you're hit on while studying by a hot guy... Yeah, hot guy over studying. The end.
Were you studying in the Periodicals?
Although I must state that whenever I am at a table by myself (this includes in the Cougareat) I try to put out a very unfriendly vibe. I know this may be against the norm...but I like my space occasionally.
This just goes to those I don't know. Love all you people I occasionally see at random though.
Tiff, Nope... no periodicals for me. I heard about its rep. and ran the other direction! I was studying in the social/science area across from the Auditorium in the library.
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