Saturday at lunchtime I had a really
amusing get together with the parents of a friend of mine at the jammed
It-Grill, downtown. After having let the usual small talk behind us the father
started to test me an my psychological awareness by talking rather direct and
sarcastically to me about some issues concerning the future. Certainly I could
have answered overreacting by understanding his way of talking more offensive
and personal like, but I simply shared his game and answered - at least I think
I did - quite full of animating spirit. The conversation thus turned out as
great fun with more than a plenty of ironic comments about a diversity of
rather less actual topics.
While I was walking home through the
crowded city, full of weekend tourists and shopping victims I began, inspired
by this exceptional get-together, to think about what reaction actually is
about. I mean why do people often react this different to issues, which may
seem clear to your very self? One single sentence to two different characters
might provoke two different viewings or even worlds. Strange as I would claim
that we should react on a scientific level all the same, but we actually don’t!
Is it really a matter of origin, education or simply ones nature to let us
assimilate things that various? Action and reaction – two deeps so close and
therefore so far in their actual motivation, as reaction is nothing but a
consequence on someone’s action. But isn’t every action a reaction on an action
before? Both are equal and opposite at the same time – confusing though.
I often wonder how people do react
from time to time on some weird word, an attentive glance or a slight,
uncareful touch. All attributes of flirting though, the misunderstanding, which
appears in very many cases is often hardly to get, as the intention of
someone’s appreciation might simply have been out of an random level of
sympathy and nothing further more. Why do we have to take ourselves this lot
too serious and can’t even accept, that there mustn’t be this regular an
superior being of human relation? Sometimes we should agree that great Amy
Winehouse was right by singing her famous words of love as a losing game,
simply because people will in most cases react rather unexpected ways.
Later that week I was waiting for a
cab after a very late aperitif, in front of the Charles Hotel, where the
reaction topic didn’t literally get of my back, as I had to overhear a rather
heated discussion of one of those typical fashionable couples about some
childishness. For me as a spectator it seemed kind of obvious, that the she
was overreacting in an exaggerated dimension, as the issue of dispute concerned
their simple should we take a cab or the subway planning. The he
stayed amazingly cool, letting her totally blow off. In such moments my
curiosity would love to lead an interview with the minds of the presented show,
in order to better understand why such a situation is even possible to provoke:
How is their private actual situation? Did he cheat on her? Is she giving him a
second chance out of the angst no one better could even want her? Or is she
simply a cow he is the only one to handle the best? And probably most
important; is her way of reacting even justified? Funny as I would say that we
often are able to handle situations, which are highly out of our business with
absolute objectivity, but are on the opposite hardly capable to arrange our own
situations like a somewhat clear-thinking being - is reaction hindering ratio?
Maybe it isn't that easy as we should never forget that emotions are the
ratio's biggest enemies and will never let it get in touch concerning the very
own reaction issues. So what is the clue about action and reaction? I mean
without darkness, there wouldn‘t be stars, so therefore they are nothing but a
consequence of a natural phenomenon and that's why we might compare stars to
reactions; simply fascinating and depending on someone‘s mood - or the weather.
Cheers
Lorax
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