Manners & Comprehension

One thing that I fail to understand is how I spend inordinate amounts of time to consider what I feel are the various avenues of possibility and yet, my expectations are often rendered a dry well. What is it that I'm not seeing? Did I miss something? Am I still supposed to be hibernating? Can I please get an answer? Someone…anyone…


This cycle of communication mishap, the one between me and the “system” seems so hindered that I retreat. I draw back the reigns and pull under my shell to contemplate the pieces that I may have overlooked…how I might be further persecuted and what that would mean to accomplishing a dear goal of mine. When I feel that air has cleared and the smoke has dissipated I venture out again.

**BAM** Miscommunication in my face!

Posh.

Bah.

Voltaire said that “True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others”, and though I perfectly understand that, I feel that my comprehension is belabored by the others. And how is that right? What I understand is that there is a large populous that remains blissfully ignorant, that as much as I attempt to follow rhythm, my step is heavy and that language is key to communication and is highly gauged by the manners that are instilled in that language…or else tone.

Maybe we can start there – with communication. “Please” and “Thank you” are both, incredibly powerful and when you couple the basics of language with priorities, well…then you’re on to something good.

I figure it can’t always be like this, not forever anyway. “This too shall pass” was a common phrase as I recall my teenage years, spoken often by my mother. And yet now I sit with the hope that “This too shall pass soon” - as my patience is wearing thin; my comprehension even thinner. Oh, and “please”.