Being Predictable
Blurring all the things!
Took this picture as I was supposed to be writing. This line stood out to me. I think I've always wanted to keep myself from being predictable. I remember as a kid thinking to myself, "everyone expects me to act this way, so I'll do the opposite." I didn't go too far with this -- I was nowhere near wild or unmanageable in any way. It was more that if people expected me to be overjoyed, I'd be mildly pleased. If I thought people expected me to be interested, I'd be bored and waaayyy too cool for whatever you were talking about. If people expected me to be upset, I'd try to be stoic -- at least until my emotions got the better of me. It was my own minor and mostly unnoticed spat of rebellion, my way to say you didn't understand me the way you thought. I also remember thinking that the kids around me were acting in such stupidly predictable ways -- didn't they know they were behaving exactly the way kids did in Full House or Boy Meets World when they were on their way to making a Big Mistake that would ultimately lead to them having to Learn a Lesson?
Took this picture as I was supposed to be writing. This line stood out to me. I think I've always wanted to keep myself from being predictable. I remember as a kid thinking to myself, "everyone expects me to act this way, so I'll do the opposite." I didn't go too far with this -- I was nowhere near wild or unmanageable in any way. It was more that if people expected me to be overjoyed, I'd be mildly pleased. If I thought people expected me to be interested, I'd be bored and waaayyy too cool for whatever you were talking about. If people expected me to be upset, I'd try to be stoic -- at least until my emotions got the better of me. It was my own minor and mostly unnoticed spat of rebellion, my way to say you didn't understand me the way you thought. I also remember thinking that the kids around me were acting in such stupidly predictable ways -- didn't they know they were behaving exactly the way kids did in Full House or Boy Meets World when they were on their way to making a Big Mistake that would ultimately lead to them having to Learn a Lesson?