Thursday, August 08, 2013

On a roll second post for the night

Wow im  on a  roll , its past twelve and well past my bedtime, tomorrow i have to attend work and yet i find myself restless to talk to speak to type. Its  not really a  conversation that  im looking for  but rather  a discourse a vent an outlet.

Have  you ever come across people who  notice things that you  dont. Does  it never bother  you that you  are  not seeing the world change, seeing the  minute  detail of the tattoo on  the girls shoulder. Maybe its just  where your priorities lie and  how you assimilate (or choose to assimilate  the life around  you). I recently  came  across these two gentlemen. I use the term gentlemen loosely here  for  all that they see  they make judgements  on and  im not even sure if thats right and  i don't make this judgement on one conversation or one observation. Its  just that i believe its important for people to express themselves and  its equally important for others not to butt  in unless required, or unless its  conducive.

People will talk and they always  have but what ever gave them the right to talk but similarly what gives me the right to talk here. So should i call this off.

let  me just state facts and  let the  rest is up to you , so here goes. Recently i  found two new recruits  in my wagon of new  joinees. Rolling down the  hill of employment  and uncertainty of a  new job. They certainly  didn't seem uncertain at all but rather  confident . Maybe they have a  right to it maybe they don't, but this is how it went. we  were out for a cup of tea at the  common tea break, and all employees  mulled around . We had a  conversation with a couple married  in love  against culture and  hopefully on the  surface happy  together. The conversation of small talk  about business in general, however  as we returned  to our stations both of them commented  on a  finding of theirs , it just so happened that  they had observed this together. i mean both of them had  observed  it individually , and  realised that they both had observed it. It was a  date on the ids of the couple the  girl was  a  year older that the guy. And they found enough reason in this fact to have a discussion about it. Now the  discussion wasn't  just  it , the fact is i was  present there  i missed it, i had  known the couple longer spent more time  with them but i never  thought of it ,  i would have never thought of it ,  i still don't check out birth dates on id cards. All i wonder here  is why do i miss it while they take  it in .  And is it a trained  activity , is  it important  , would i like to have that ability, would it really effect me  ,  and whats my perspective, where  do i come  from  on that  . im not certain , im undecided on it, does  seem like a  superpower but  im not to sure if its  important enough. I think its a  trained ability, but  im not too sure how to get it. im not too sure whether  id like to have  it, if its  final destiny is a comment .

What do you think about it  , i just cant  get my head round  it , i do notice  unusual things  but i notice them cos im interested  in them i look for them , like tattoos and  nail-paints and  feet  and  random things like that , but i don't have a  fixed purpose behind it.

But isn't life also about observing and  is this not a  lack of it ,  is it important to expand you field of observation or rather  attention .  I know people  who make use of this selective attention like magicians and illusionists but i cant  quite understand what  would be better  to be an assimilator or to be a  filter. 

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