Wednesday, August 20 Don't let me be misunderstood

Post 1260, Day 232 of 2014
- 1,328 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

What happens when people misread you? You don't have any control about what other people think of you, and, of course, it is none of your business, but...

I am curious about it in this sense: I wonder about where the ripples from that particular stone-in-the-pond spread to.

We all put on our masks when we deal with other people. We think we are presenting ourselves in a certain way. I try to be true to my sense of how I am when dealing with people, but there are a lot of variables, chiefly the internals of everybody else.

I have been told some people see me as aloof.

My reaction is basically, "WTF?" I feel like I am the opposite of aloof, which I interpret as presenting myself as superior to other people. 

I try (failing often, but I try) not to be judgmental. I don't believe I am, as a human, better than anyone else. I may be more fortunate, in a better situation, in a better mood, etc., but I don't make that determination. 

How it is possible for me to so misrepresent my true feelings as to be perceived like that?

I am, at times, reserved (although rarely with those I know - with them, maybe the opposite) when the conversation or activity is something that makes me uncomfortable or when I am ignorant about a topic, so little or nothing to contribute.

Sometimes, I think about what I'm going to say, and allow a pause before replying in a conversation.

I find it humorous to respond to sarcasm or hyperbole as though it were neither, taking the statement literally. It's dry, but it comes from the opposite place as superiority.

Lastly, I am hearing impaired. When I'm not wearing my hearing aids, and I'm not looking at a person, I may not know that I am being spoken to. It isn't that I'm deliberately ignoring anybody. I just didn't know.

I got a new set of hearing aids this year, that are better than my previous ones, in every respect. I now wear hearing aids all the time, in part to avoid seeming aloof.

I'm doing what I can.

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 Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:          211.8 lbs

Previous Weight:         210.4 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:       + 1.4 lbs

Diet Comment

Yesterday was a perfectly on-plan day, spoiled by post-rehearsal late-night shopping hunger, grabbing an on-sale protein bar. Still, a pound-and-a-half seems like too great a penalty.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
At Ling-Ling's Chinese Buffet and Grill:

Brussels sprouts, kimchee, and, from the "Mongolian Grill", my go-to dish: pork and chicken with cabbage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers and broccoli.

Snack
Celery and home-made mayonnaise.

Dinner

Chili: Organic beef, black beans, tomatoes, chili spice, raw cacao, stevia-inulin blend. Not shown: Broccoli slaw.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  26 oz.   Water: 120+ oz.

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