There is an old joke that says that a container full of crabs need not be closed, because if one tries to escape the others will pull it back. I was reminded about that and many other people when I read the ‘Peanuts’ strip yesterday. It goes like this.
This one is even more amazing. You yourself goad someone to be something and continue that with more irrelevant comparisons while praising and then bring them back in a thud. Though many would not obviously do that ‘bringing back’ thing, surely they don’t mean anything while they shower compliments.
It is so very obvious that the compliments are shallow and uttered just for the heck or for a conversation. Seen many a guy who can repeat one single line to many girls. Maybe it could be because of utter lack of creativity or maybe that’s what their brilliance can afford. But, I feel it is more because of lack of effort to say something that’s worthwhile. Whatever is said is more as a starter or as filler while chatting, because there is no intellectual compatibility.
I often wonder what runs in their mind, when they say these compliments. Do they know that they are making an ass of themselves? Do they know they betray their lack of intelligence? Do they know that their packaging is so very banal that even if someone wants to believe they see through it?
These are the people who also tell the other guys that they are great. It has happened to me many times. I would have made an ass of myself only at that very moment; this genius will come and tell me that I did a great job. Would feel like strangling these characters then. It berates your even further to say that you did good, when you yourself know that you advertised the whole world that you are fool beyond comparison.
What exactly are these guys? Are they plainly incompetent of doing something? Or, are they so very jealous that they want to make a superficial appreciative comment that everyone knows that they don’t mean.
These are the crabs I want to run miles away from. But unfortunately God puts us all in the same container : (
This one is even more amazing. You yourself goad someone to be something and continue that with more irrelevant comparisons while praising and then bring them back in a thud. Though many would not obviously do that ‘bringing back’ thing, surely they don’t mean anything while they shower compliments.
It is so very obvious that the compliments are shallow and uttered just for the heck or for a conversation. Seen many a guy who can repeat one single line to many girls. Maybe it could be because of utter lack of creativity or maybe that’s what their brilliance can afford. But, I feel it is more because of lack of effort to say something that’s worthwhile. Whatever is said is more as a starter or as filler while chatting, because there is no intellectual compatibility.
I often wonder what runs in their mind, when they say these compliments. Do they know that they are making an ass of themselves? Do they know they betray their lack of intelligence? Do they know that their packaging is so very banal that even if someone wants to believe they see through it?
These are the people who also tell the other guys that they are great. It has happened to me many times. I would have made an ass of myself only at that very moment; this genius will come and tell me that I did a great job. Would feel like strangling these characters then. It berates your even further to say that you did good, when you yourself know that you advertised the whole world that you are fool beyond comparison.
What exactly are these guys? Are they plainly incompetent of doing something? Or, are they so very jealous that they want to make a superficial appreciative comment that everyone knows that they don’t mean.
These are the crabs I want to run miles away from. But unfortunately God puts us all in the same container : (
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