Wednesday, March 18, 2009

What? You're Not a Mind Reader?

Today, I found myself extremely annoyed and frustrated by a situation that was more or less all my own fault. I'm fairly certain that more often than not, I expect people around me to be mind readers. I assume they know what I'm thinking, are on board with my logic, and will act accordingly. As you can imagine, this rarely happens. Rarely. As I paused to analyze my own frustration, I asked myself what it was that I expected the source of my frustration to do differently. And, I realized, it all boiled down to the fact that I was annoyed that another person didn't intuitively know information I'd never given her. It seemed so silly, but even recognizing how ridiculous I was being didn't completely calm me down because the reality is I still don't want to change. I don't want to adjust my communication patterns or habits. I want others to change. I want them to develop a supernatural ability to read my mind. Is that really too much to ask? :-/

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