Saturday, October 27, 2007

this is my somersaulting hourglass

This post on Al Mohler's blog (which I found thanks to Boundless) makes me laugh.

Just the other day I was in a conversation (I can't remember exactly when it was or what about) where I realized that I was nodding -- and had been nodding for a while -- even though I was thinking simultaneously about several other things and wasn't entirely sure what was being said.

But I was nodding to make sure that the other person kept talking until I caught up with what he was saying. Kind of like a stalling mechanism.

I'm not sure what to do about this, because it seems like a really horrible thing. I wish I could keep my mind in one place.

And I will try to be more sincere in my nodding from here on out.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is so funny. The next time I am talking to you and you are nodding I am going to ask you what I just said????? Wouldn't that be funny?

Anonymous said...

Yep, I do the same thing too, except when my range of perception shifts its focus from the external to the internal world, my manly corpus callosum (which is a poor multi-tasker compared to the female version) doesn't even allow for the courtesy of a "yes, I'm listening to your story and I find it most interesting" nod.

It'd be a problem but I usually snap out of it before the other person catches on, haha.

On a related note, this phenomenon is probably the same one that moved my 3rd grade teacher to comment on my report card in red ink that "David daydreams too much in class."

If only there were a way to turn it off...but even if you could, would you even want to?