Do you ever say something that you didn't intend to say? Perhaps a topic that you had no intention of discussing? This happens to me sometimes. I hate it. Because my brain makes me re-live the moment over and over again. Usually for days or weeks, but sometimes even for months or years.
Or sometimes it's something stupid I've said that makes no sense at all. Usually this happens because I've misheard or misunderstood what has just been said -and then the comment I make is completely disjointed. Doesn't matter. My brain still likes to gnaw on it over and over again.
The biggest thing that comes back to haunt me is unsolicited advice. Sometimes I say things in a kind of bossy way and it just bugs the hell out of me. Lately it's been happening a lot, even though I don't intend to. I sound really annoying in my head. Aaaarrgh!
I must need a new filter.
March 19, 2007
Does this happen to you?
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You're not the only one. I can still recreate the sinking feeling of having said something completely off by thinking about it. There things I said or did years ago that haunt me. If only replacing your filter was as simple as furnace filter replacement.
I can still remember back to first grade, a particular day when I just needed to sit down and shut up. And so many more since then. You're not alone, AKJ.
You spend a lot of time with children, AKJ, so you're excused. Myself, I spend far too much time talking to either college students or the people who manage the people who manage software developers (and the redundancy there is intentional, bless the bureaucracy), so I also have taken to using short, declarative sentences, beginning with "You need to...." Hard to change gears, but it doesn't make you a bad person.
Yep, I'm there. Just reading the post made me come up with about 4 of them.
Sorry, didn't mean to make you all re-live your own! (but I am also relieved that it's not just me)
Thanks Kashka for the reminder about the gear changing thing- I think you are right and that being used to telling kids what to do is part of it. Or at least I am going to run with that because it makes me feel better. :)
Oh god, all the freakin' time. The worst is when I realize it halfway through and I STILL DON'T SHUT UP! It's like, the decent part of my personality is in the background shrieking at me to just stop talking but the total asshole part of my personality overrides it — and sometimes tries to fix it by going even further, which of course makes it even worse. *headdesk*
I talk WAY TOO MUCH, so yeah, that has happened more times than it should. And also, I think we all have that little voice in our head that is constantly saying, "shut the hell up, you sound insane." So I think you are normal, the ones who don't have that voice are many of our politicians, very very sad.
YES!!
i can STILL get all red-faced over from any number of particularly embarassing incidents from years ago.
it makes that old adage "think before you speak" all the more pertinent.
that's also the one of the pitfalls of blogging. once you put something out there on "paper" it is there forever. but the spoken word kind of fades away.
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