WAG - A Brief Over-Explanation (and use) of Words
Ah…
I haven’t even been in Sullivan a week and I’m already out on the road again.
Well, I’m not currently on a road, but have rather traveled one today and now find myself at a location more distant than the place I first woke up at.
Curse my inborn inclination to be accurate to the point of composing long, protracted, and unnecessary explanatory paragraphs thus, spending more words on the situation than they actually deserve.
A person in this mindset hears a comment like, “It’s good to see you,” and begins to question how the brain’s translation of visual images can prompt pleasure in the receptor of those transmissions.
“The mere act of seeing can’t be that big of deal!” a person might exclaim… and then be forced to explain their comments to a confused person who was merely wishing to convey a message of well meaning.
As a person who loathes math (or at least anything past 7th grade math. Once you got past addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and the standard variations of those four, I’ve been clueless ever since), I’ve still have an analytical mind.
My brain still tries to quantify things; plunk factors into previously calculated equations and see how things add up. I suppose that’s where I get my stickler’s policing of word choice.
I know a person may mean what they say, I question if their words actually back up their intent.
“I’m just happy to be here,” doesn’t mean a person is content to be residing in a particular spot. It means one is pleased to be located in familiar place and/or surrounded by good friends. Even then, it’s not physical proximity of the people, but the good times they help create or happy memories they provoke that help prompt happiness.
Of course, that truer statement is much more confusing than a less accurate five-word statement. That’s why most people accept those statements without another thought and focus on the more important things.
But not me… It’s a blessing and a curse, but it helps me more accurately communicate what is going on in the world around me.
Even if it takes a whole page to say one is in Kansas City and not Sullivan.
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