Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

Um. My sister teaches kindergarten. She can be … a gentle, loving, kind of humiliating. My mother taught ‘challenged’ children. She can be humiliating. Supportive, yes, and caring yes, but dismissively humiliating. My daughter is about as fine a woman as god ever made, and she can make you feel humiliated with a facial expression.

In general, being around the women in my family is … humiliating. (I can honestly understand why.)

And come to think of it, not all, but many of the women in my life have found my lack of seriousness – or rather, the very large scope of things I consider not worthy of serious consideration – frustrating.

Listen. It’s simple. I like to play. I like to play with people a great deal. Why? Because I do know the difference between the serious and the not serious. And really, there is not very much that is worthy of seriousness. I mean, violence, money, business, politics, and war. Aside from that, we’re talking about rearranging the furniture.

OK? I only sound childish. But from my perspective, people who worry about rearranging the furniture are ‘cute’. Now, cute and quaint are my versions of ‘childish’.

So we are all better off when we enjoy each other’s childishness and save the seriousness for the serious things.

hugs all.