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Podionaut Hard to get
Post posted by Sacha on July 13th, 2009 at 21:22
Yeah. I’m not playing hard to get, I am hard to _get_.
Most of the time, people just don’t seem to ‘get’ me. They don’t understand what I mean because I’m always talking from some other reference point or thought or I’m just speaking in a completely different universe than most people. I seem to have a knack for saying exactly the thing that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever at the exact right moment when nobody seems to expect any word from me. The funniest part of it is, that it’s often my jokes that nobody gets. So I’m standing there, all smiley face and expecting everybody to burst out laughing with me and then they go “Hm? I don’t get it”. I get that. A lot.
And this is not just when I speak English (I can -somewhat- understand if people think my English a bit weird, it’s not my native language so I make funneh mistakes). It mostly happens when I speak my own language because that’s the time when I let my guard down and just let my witty jokes flow out of my mouth without giving it a good evaluation. Also, my mind is already 20 steps further down the road when I’m speaking that thought aloud, too far away to realise it may have been smarter to keep my jaws plastered together with a nice smile on top for better effect. And third, if I think before I speak, the other person gets his/her joke in first.
I am starting to accept that I live in a world where I am certainly not part of the mainstream-way-of-thinking and that is very fine by me. But just once in a while, I would love to have some people LOL about my (very funny and witty and quirky) jokes. Or maybe not. The pressure to perform must to be huge if you always say wonderful things that everybody ‘gets’. No, I think I’m very happy in this little corner of the universe where from time to time somebody accidentally gets me and the rest of the time they just let me be me because I just have a very unique way of saying things.
So, if you tell a joke in a small corner of the universe, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
It is, but only if I get it. Got it?
