I have recently been called ignorant.
Not that I am not. I was actually not so much surprised by the fact I was called ignorant, but much more by the fact that the person who called me ignorant realized I am ignorant. Confusing, ah?
Not so much. I all comes down to one simple thing. We meet someone, we talk to them, we build up in our minds a picture, a frame for that person, we put them in the frame and we kind of think we know what to expect from them.
In most cases this practice might work. Unfortunately there are times when this doesn't work.
This leads to the above situation when I was called ignorant.
Where the person had a frame in her mind about me, when all of a sudden I went out of the frame and all in shock she called me ignorant and inconsiderate.
I am reading a book currently and it has the definition of love in it as the ability to accept people as they are and not try to change them.
I think this fits best in my cynical profile.
Why not? I just saw in the three days I spent with a couple: friends of mine.
He loves her together with the dog and the endless number of bottles and jars of spices and the ring on her toe.
She loves him and says that on the second day she new there will never be another man in her life ever again.
He has her name tattooed on his arm, and she is truly happy when he gives her an iron for the 8th of March (a cultural discourse for the non-Eastern European readers: 8th of March is the International women day and was quite a holiday in the time of the Iron curtain when it was considered perfectly ok to give as a present to a woman a frying pan for example) .
She loves him and this has made her stronger than ever before.
Right, now, please, try to get me they way I want you to: I am cynical, ignorant, inconsiderate, but I am also loving, passionate and sensitive.
Nobody is perfect.
Once you realize people are not and will never be what you want them to be, you will start living a much happier life. Believe me.
Better start accepting people as they are, or look for the people who suite best your character today than complain how miserable you are and how you can't find the love of your life.
For the rest of it, Bulgaria is giving me the best preparation to go back to London: a second day of rain and +15 degrees...
