Things that people say !

Today being a Monday morning, was as crazy as any other. I was busy getting my little one down and out of the car seat and at the same time convincing her that all big girls don't have to do everything on their own - that's when I heard a familiar voice behind me.

I was half inside the car, and half outside, struggling with the car seat belt. It was one of the moms I usually ran into every morning, and she was asking, “How are you doing” and breezed past me. Gone before I could bat an eyelid! It was as if she was never there. I had by now, come out of the car and was struggling to get the door shut without hitting the neighbor’s car, as the parking spot had said “Compact, and I still had ventured parking my car into the spot.

Now, I wanted to tell this lady all the hundred reasons why I was having a bad morning. A splitting headache, a sleepless night since the kiddo tossed due to a stuffy nose, a husband on the side who snored away, aching legs, hungry growl in the stomach since there was no time for breakfast, a bad hair day, or the fact that I was cold in a skirt – a bad choice on a rainy day!

I always wonder when people ask each other how the other is doing or Wassup - do they really ask because they care? If they do, they never really stop to find out. But, I assume it’s more for the formality. What use is this formality anyway? Why waste your time saying things you don’t mean and don’t have the time to follow through anyway?

I recently took a class, and the instructor taught things that were obsolete, but had to because it was part of the curriculum. So, every time he taught an obsolete command from the text book, he would say “If you ever use this syntax in real life, send me an e-mail”. Now, it tickled my imagination every time he said it. I sat there thinking, what will he do if everyone of us in the class uses one of these commands every single day, and sends him an e-mail? What’ll he do in the end with all those e-mails? Again, I realize it’s an expression he uses, but why say things you don’t mean? Who’s putting a gun to our heads to do these things?

All of us say and do things we really don’t mean or care about every single day of our lives. I know that there is no way out since we live in a society that is bound by rules – the very rules that were created by us. But, now the rules rule us, humans!

So, the next time you say something you really don’t mean – think of this article you have spent time reading. Look at your self in the mirror and try to be honest at least to yourself – believe me, you will be a happier person!!!