Let It All Out (These Are The Things I've Been Meaning To Say)
I've recently discovered you don't have very many opportunities to explain yourself. I know, it took me twenty years to figure that out? But it's true. When you say something in front of others, that goes down in history exactly the way you said it. The others think of it the way it appeared to them, regardless of how it was actually meant. For example, an old high school classmate shows up where you work, and instead of saying hello, maybe making some small talk, you ignore him. He comes away from the encounter with only the thought that you ignored him. He may extrapolate from that that you're rude, or you don't like him, and from there, he may explore the reasons why you don't like him, including but not limited to: you never liked him for some unknown reason (which may make him question all the times you've been nice to him) or you think you're better than him now because of something that has changed in your life. B...