Impressionist Triangle

It's amazing what people around you think about you. I mean, you may not be the person you're perceived to be. Not at all. Like I'm seen as this klutz who's a perfect living example of Murphy's law. Bad karma I say. It's just not my fault. Never is. Like this other day I was trying to lay my aching head on my desk and the chair beneath me slipped out from under me and I banged my head on the desk... wait, you don't need to know all that.

So coming back to the point, I'm perceived as being this person with whom everything goes wrong all the time, but Your Honour, I swear solemnly under oath that I am not that person! It's a case of mistaken identity! Never mind the fact that I just managed to delete my previous blog entry. Single-handedly at that. But, let's face it, mistakes do happen. I was just trying to check something out and clicked the edit button by mistake and I didn't want to edit. so then hit the submit button while it hadn't loaded yet and... *snip* (That was me cutting myself off in mid-sentence.)

To continue what I was talking about, impressions are not very true or accurate. They are almost always based on overt behaviour and that really cannot be the sum total of what a person is. I might be the person who takes around her own personal handful of disaster wherever she goes, but that isn't what I am. Underneath all the falling things I manage to knock down and behind all that stumbling over my own feet, there's this cool, calm, sophisticated, mature young woman. (What?! Can't I even dream?)

Ok, ok. Let's not forget the point I'm trying to make here. Which is, impressions can be wrong. A person has many facets, one of which might overshadow the rest, but that doesn't mean a person is uni-dimensional. Just because a person goes slightly crazy while multi-tasking doesn't mean that the person cannot manage more than one thing. Well, that might be the case, but it might as well not be the case. And if that same person crashed into a stationary lamppost once while backing out of a lane, it doesn't mean that the very same person cannot drive. Plus, if that hypothetical person continually manages to add the wrong people into MSN conversations, it doesn't mean that the imaginary person we're talking about is stupid. All I'm saying here is that you cannot make a judgemental decision (about someone's sanity) based on a few isolated incidences. Well, ok, not so isolated and not very few... but you get my point.

People have a deep personality. (That was such a dumb sentence.) What I mean is, individuals are so much more than what they appear to be. (Ok, better.) There are depths to people which they themselves don't know, and it takes a unique situation to take out that hidden facet. Someone who you think is a clueless moron might just turn out to be the only person who can solve your problems some day. It's just that the time should be right and the particular situation should be just right for it to happen. It's like fitting a triangular key into a square slot. That doesn't mean the triangle is useless, it just has its own corresponding triangle somewhere, which it has yet to find.

Hey!!! That's it!! That just it! I'm a triangle in a world full of squares. Oh, glee! I knew I was on to something when I started writing this...