*Waits for laughter, snide comments, and such to die down.*
Yes, yes, yes, I said “Love ya” when talking about a guy. Please keep the snickering to a minimum… you know who you are. Now back to the topic at hand.
Over the past couple weeks I have heard from various friends (both male and female) “George! Why are (the opposite sex) so damned confusing?” or “Why can’t guys/girls just say/do what they mean?” The truth is that I have no idea. I would like to think that I am a straightforward and easy to understand guy, but I don’t know. Maybe what I find to be straightforward and honest is confusing to some people. I hope not, but you never know.
In talking with my friend, I came up with a few thoughts and ideas. First, the subject of men and women communicating has been a topic of discussion, argument, and thought for as long as humans have had language, and yet we still don't understand the full complexities of the opposite sex. Funnily enough, I don't know whether it is sad or amazing. I don't think any man has ever fully understood any woman (or vise versa), yet somehow the human race has gone on. Somehow through the confusion of our mixed up and crazy communication patterns, people still find a way to fall in love and live out their lives with people they don't truly understand. I don't know how or why it works the way it does. It is simply amazing what humans are capable of.
Well, I am going to cut this post short because I am oddly tired for some reason tonight. So here are a few quotes I found while thinking about the relationship between “Men and Women” and our communication problems:
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” – Anthony Robbins
“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.” – Henry Kissinger
“The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him” – Helen Rowland
“And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.” – Helen Rowland (apparently she was one of the few women who actually understood men)
1 comment:
I'm sure you've seen those photo mosaic posters consisting of thousands of tiny photos that form a larger picture if you stand back. I like to think (or hope (I suppose)) that male/female communication is similar to that concept. Each sex is standing so damn close to the mosaic, focusing intently on the little pictures that make very little cohesive sense, that they forget to step back and notice how the little pictures form something far more important, something you see without having to know every tiny picture, something that makes you say, “Whoa, that’s neat.”
What that "important" "thing" might be, on the hand, is an entirely different analogy.
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