"One morning as I sat patiently waiting for the next salvo of words to be fired across the bow of my coffee cup, I braced myself. As she glared in my direction, I was hoping my silence would draw her words out. Two minutes and twenty four seconds later, success! My wife lectured me, again, stating that I was acting just like my father, again. I reminded her that I had spent 18 years living with the man and that the possibility of acquiring some of his traits and habits, was not a possibility but a certainty. A sure bet. 100%. I wasn't acting like my father I was imitating my father. I was reacting or maybe the proper term is repeating the stated actions I had witnessed my father act out. I refer to this phenomenon as “The Parental Rerun Show, sponsored by Memorex.” Like father, like son. It wasn't me honey, my father made me say those things."
Sound familiar? Someone stating that you are just like someone else, acting like them, behaving like them, thinking like them and of course the ultimate . . . . "the spittin' image".
Funny how others view our actions and words through historically tainted glasses. Constructing a image of you and I from only what they know or believe to be accurate and true. ( in their opinion)
All of us are guilty of the above stated crime. We all perceive others through the same glasses of perceptual reality. But, what if . . . . . we are all to blame for all the erroneous beliefs and half truths we hold due to the wearing of corrective lenses? What if . . . do I dare suggest this? We simply take off our glasses and see the person for whom they are , today. I don't need corrective lenses to see clearly who is standing in front of me, I need to believe what I see and hear. What someone does is what they believe not what they say. What someone says is whom they want to be. I say . . . . .
Who is this man in the picture? I once referred to him as the "Charlie Sheen of the Victorian era". The original wilde and crazy guy. My current favorite is "The original Cat in the Hat". I think I will get me one of those hats, I really like it. But, I digress ...... again. Oscar Wilde is famous for his one liners and his original view of the world around him. He is quoted all the time and seldom given the credit for the words, his words are memorable but his name not so.
DA Keene
Sound familiar? Someone stating that you are just like someone else, acting like them, behaving like them, thinking like them and of course the ultimate . . . . "the spittin' image".
Funny how others view our actions and words through historically tainted glasses. Constructing a image of you and I from only what they know or believe to be accurate and true. ( in their opinion)
All of us are guilty of the above stated crime. We all perceive others through the same glasses of perceptual reality. But, what if . . . . . we are all to blame for all the erroneous beliefs and half truths we hold due to the wearing of corrective lenses? What if . . . do I dare suggest this? We simply take off our glasses and see the person for whom they are , today. I don't need corrective lenses to see clearly who is standing in front of me, I need to believe what I see and hear. What someone does is what they believe not what they say. What someone says is whom they want to be. I say . . . . .
Be yourself, everybody else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
I don't act like my father, I act like me. I don't speak like others, I speak to others of mine own beliefs. There are only so many words and ways to position those words, so . . . . speak in your voice and just let others think what they may. You and I know that we were speaking the truth and that sometimes our words are tainted by others perceptions.
Who is this man in the picture? I once referred to him as the "Charlie Sheen of the Victorian era". The original wilde and crazy guy. My current favorite is "The original Cat in the Hat". I think I will get me one of those hats, I really like it. But, I digress ...... again. Oscar Wilde is famous for his one liners and his original view of the world around him. He is quoted all the time and seldom given the credit for the words, his words are memorable but his name not so.
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Wilde
"Ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth? "
The cowardly Lion
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