read an article in psychologytoday abt mind reading... not the superhero kind. the kind that ppl do everyday. the collective divining of the thoughts of others by assimilitaing the vast amount of data in terms of body language, facial features, voice inflections, words etc. the article mentioned abt how our skills at mind reading are generally on the decline, cos of less vis a vis interaction.
but one thing they didn't mention was how a new form of 'reading' is developing. punctuations, emoticons, acronyms and alphabets have come to replace the nuances that are so essential to mind-reading. slowly, our society is decaying into autism; mind-reading is atrophying into hypersensitivity and speculative conjectures behind the faceless anonymity that we hail as MSN. oh well. i'm just as much a victim so what the heck.
jodi picoult books are a wealth of insight. just read this line that particularly struck me - "What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?"
true... we don't forget easily. in fact, it'd be a waste to forget. lolz like a friend told me recently, what's someone without his memories? pretty much just an organ with neural signals i'd think. but even then, is there no point in forgiving then? forgiveness is a gift. it's when it hurts the most, that it is the most valuable.
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read an article in psychologytoday abt mind reading... not the superhero kind. the kind that ppl do everyday. the collective divining of the thoughts of others by assimilitaing the vast amount of data in terms of body language, facial features, voice inflections, words etc. the article mentioned abt how our skills at mind reading are generally on the decline, cos of less vis a vis interaction.
but one thing they didn't mention was how a new form of 'reading' is developing. punctuations, emoticons, acronyms and alphabets have come to replace the nuances that are so essential to mind-reading. slowly, our society is decaying into autism; mind-reading is atrophying into hypersensitivity and speculative conjectures behind the faceless anonymity that we hail as MSN. oh well. i'm just as much a victim so what the heck.
jodi picoult books are a wealth of insight. just read this line that particularly struck me - "What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?"
true... we don't forget easily. in fact, it'd be a waste to forget. lolz like a friend told me recently, what's someone without his memories? pretty much just an organ with neural signals i'd think. but even then, is there no point in forgiving then? forgiveness is a gift. it's when it hurts the most, that it is the most valuable.