Now, everyone reading this has to know that texting can kill someone. I'm here to tell you something entirely different. People are weird. Simple as that. But one thing that makes us even weirder is that we over-think a whole lot of things. Take this scene for example:
John firsts takes a picture of an orange mug with a white background. He, then, shows it to his best friends Alyssa and Cameron at a coffee shop downtown. When he gets there, the two are already sitting down drinking a coffee at a four-person table. John walks up to them and shows them the printed out picture of the large orange mug. Alyssa reacts like this
"John. Wow! This is amazing. The elaborate detail in the picture; yet it's so simple. It's the simplicity that kills me. I get this picture, though. It's telling us that we are like one big melting pot, us Americans, melting pot because of the two colours needed to make orange, and that if we don't shape up on the basics of life like reading, writing and knowing math and science, our economy will go down and we'll break into a million pieces like if that mug dropped on the ground." (Sorry Alyssa, but you're over-thinking this just a tad)
While Cameron reacts in this way
"I think it's just a mug on a sheet of paper." And so John answers that Cameron is right. Now, in Cameron's head, when Alyssa was giving her 'Speech', he was think 'Alyssa, you're crazy! It's just a mug!'
Both could be correct depending on perspective, but in this case, Alyssa definitely over-reacted and over-'thunk' it. So, I'm sorry, but that's it for today. Just remember to NOT text and drive. (There's even a commercial for that. I'll post that next time.) And to never over-'thunk' something. It makes you look like you have an entire dictionary and encyclopedia in your brain.
John firsts takes a picture of an orange mug with a white background. He, then, shows it to his best friends Alyssa and Cameron at a coffee shop downtown. When he gets there, the two are already sitting down drinking a coffee at a four-person table. John walks up to them and shows them the printed out picture of the large orange mug. Alyssa reacts like this
"John. Wow! This is amazing. The elaborate detail in the picture; yet it's so simple. It's the simplicity that kills me. I get this picture, though. It's telling us that we are like one big melting pot, us Americans, melting pot because of the two colours needed to make orange, and that if we don't shape up on the basics of life like reading, writing and knowing math and science, our economy will go down and we'll break into a million pieces like if that mug dropped on the ground." (Sorry Alyssa, but you're over-thinking this just a tad)
While Cameron reacts in this way
"I think it's just a mug on a sheet of paper." And so John answers that Cameron is right. Now, in Cameron's head, when Alyssa was giving her 'Speech', he was think 'Alyssa, you're crazy! It's just a mug!'
Both could be correct depending on perspective, but in this case, Alyssa definitely over-reacted and over-'thunk' it. So, I'm sorry, but that's it for today. Just remember to NOT text and drive. (There's even a commercial for that. I'll post that next time.) And to never over-'thunk' something. It makes you look like you have an entire dictionary and encyclopedia in your brain.
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