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12:20:2003 Entry: "Ann : Amazing Powers of Observation"

Amazing Powers of Observation

I wonder what recently gave me an acute sense of perception.

When I was a kid, I was terrible at comprehensive reading. I mean for the most part I was an A/B student, but I just could not grasp the story or text I was required to read about in school. Sometimes I would even cheat just to get through to the next level of tests. Maybe I was just bored with the subject matter. In college I would catch myself, as I was trying to read a textbook in Psychology or Sociology, my mind just drifting away into more interesting landscapes. But lately I'm having the opposite problem. I'm finding that others are not comprehending either what I write or say or what others write or say. I'm not trying to be elusive or evasive in my wording, but all too often people misconstrue my words or misplace a "not" or confuse a double negative and get the absolute opposite interpretation of what I was trying to say. Frankly, it's getting quite tiresome. And it's that way with other people's words too...I am so surprised how often people don't correctly interpret the words of others either, even when it is as clear as day. For example, today on the news one of the reporters was comparing *the sight* of Baghdad burning to that of Dresden in WWII. I understood what he was saying, the sky looked like Germany in the Big War. Then Rumsfeld goes on TV and talks to the press and says that some reporters have been comparing this campaign to that of WWII and that the two are not comparable because it is completely different. Well, to me it was completely obvious that the reporter was talking about the image of the burning sky, not the technology or the war itself. I guess one can forgive Rumsfeld for this mistake, he has a lot on his mind. But I don't think that can be said of people who are casually reading my writings online.

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