“Honey, we need to talk.”
“You’re quite right, we very much do. We need to talk. But
more than that, we need to write, we need to sing, communication is basically
the most fundamentally important activity we, as humans, undertake. It’s been
said that our opposable thumbs are what separates us from the beasts, but they
really aren’t. Plenty of primates have thumbs. What separates us from the
beasts is our ability to communicate with one another, to conceptualize on an
abstract level, to make complex plans and, working together, to make those
plans a reality. You raise a point both subtle and prescient, my darling. We do
need to talk. Everyone does. But how often to we stop to really reflect
properly upon this underlying truth of the human condition. Thank you. Thank
you, you truly have given me a lot to think about on this day…”
“No, you’re misunderstanding me. I suspect you’re
deliberately misunderstanding me. What I meant is: I need to talk to you here,
now. This isn’t working out between us, I want to break up with you.”
“Yeah, I know. I was just seeing how much of your time I
could waste before you got around to saying it.”
ha ha ha - this is so true. I liked it. picked up one thing - often to we stop to really
ReplyDeleteshould it not be often do - we stop