… Is For A Blog That No One Reads
I know because I’ve been blogging since 2005 – when the rest of you were still designing your MySpace pages (or wetting your diapers).
Chances are, you’re here because it occurred to you that it might be cool to own a domain called Supposed.ly and so you typed it into your address bar to see if it already exists.
Bummer. It does. And by the way, this random guy is talking to me about how we should pretend to care about each other.
I spent two weeks searching Twitter for regular people talking about self-awareness, and you know what? Basically everyone talking about self-awareness is selling something.
Does that surprise you? It does and it doesn’t surprise me. It does, because I wondered what other words regular people are using when they talk about being self-aware. But it doesn’t surprise me because no one I know actually talks about self-awareness.
I’m watching Megyn Kelly interview Tara Reade on Instagram. Earlier I watched clips of late night show hosts talk informally from their homes. There’s something about simple video production that makes celebrities seem so much more normal.
I rarely trust a confident person. Knowing what I know about my own self – my fallibility, my frequent lack of direction, and my ability to find a caveat to nearly every rule – the idea that a person exists in the world who doesn’t struggle with one or all of those things seems preposterous.
During the stay-at-home orders, it’s easier to see which side of the emotion sharing fence people live on. More than ever, neighbors and friends are calling each other to check in and see how the people in their lives are doing.
You cannot really know the heart motives of another person. Criticism is often based on faulty assumptions about people who are different than us.
To one person, being cautious is an exercise of stewardship and responsibility.
To another, being cautious is a sign of fear or paranoia.
I saw this retweeted by one of my favorite sports analysts, and it resonated so much I had to share.
Dr. Andreo Spina, whom I’ve never met or heard of before this tweet, shared an idea I wish more people internalized.
100% of the time (literal, not exaggerated), whenever you hear a reporter, an entrepreneur, a pastor, a doctor, or other professional spend any noticeable amount of time talking about what other people in their profession do wrong/poorly that they don’t do, warning bells should go off.
100% of the time.
Some people make a name for themselves by shining light. Others make a name for themselves by differentiating themselves from “dark”.
These are not the same thing.
In the Charismatic Christian community, there are two reasons why people have serious problems: it’s either a character issue or it’s a demon. Those broad sweeping generalizations are clearly inaccurate much of the time. It’s just as foolish as generalizing how women feel or how men react. Life is full of nuance and unique circumstance.