Are you hearing me correctly?

Well well well, a mid week post. Just shaking it up a little.

Thought I'd take us on a tour of lies and misunderstandings (or misinterpretations), so here we go.........


There are many different types of lie, such as the mean lie: 'I've never like you anyway' or the little white lie 'I didn't eat all the chocolate', or the kind lie 'no, your bum doesn't look big in that' and so on and so on. Everyday we say and hear lies, it's part of human nature. With out lies the world would be a miserable place, I mean imagine if you were told your bum really did look big in that!!! But what if we are not telling the lie, but hearing it instead? What do we really hear? What do we really take from others words? How do we translate the words that tumble from their mouth to our ear?

Some times you hear what you want to because you need to, it makes you feel better, even if logically you know it doesn't make sense.

Some times we let people spin us a line and allow ourselves to believe it because it makes us feel wanted, even special. As if their words can magically make everthing ok, fill that void, the ache, maybe even brighten the darkness!

Some times we read to much in to things, a comment idly made, a song lyric, a touch, a look, a note, a text. Some times it's a positive thing, sometimes you only read negativity. But in either case you can be wrong.

These are the times when you are at a loss, when you feel strangely at sea and you will take what you can get, or beat yourself up for not being good enough. We allow others to influence our lives, change our moods, skew our judgement with the most ambiguous information. turning and twisting it to our own intention. Some times the giver doesn't even realise they've done it, that they have given you this gift/curse, their intentions being quite innocent. Other times they know too well what they have done and watch with eager eyes to see events unfold, for you to react in a bid to make themselves feel better or worse.

Each of us are capable of bringing so much delight or pain into our own lives simply my misinterpreting another, mishearing or just allowing in another's words or thoughts or emotions.

But what happens when someone is honest, when they say/do something that brings such delight as to flip your stomach, or such pain as to have you doubled over? To raise your soul or crush it? What happens when you take that information and accuse them of spinning you a line, of misrepresenting it? When you accuse them of only saying what they think you want to hear? Are we so cynical that we can no longer take anyone at face value?

Some times it's easier to believe its all a lie, to believe they span you line, that you read to much into it, than to admit to the reality of the feelings or emotions it stirred. Easier then having to face up to what you can never have or give.

Some times it's better to pretend that the reality of it all is not real, because, lets face it, everyone lies.......


Don't they?????????????????