That’s what I think is absent from a lot of life today. There’s no reveal. Your best shot is to be a magician, but there’s even youtube videos to make that a yawn fest too. The second you think you have a tid bit of new info to bestow upon your friends, much less your community/state/country, everyone always already knows at least a little bit about it. Or all of it.
That’s the thing, we become temporary holding cells of information very quickly. But is there really any point to knowing all the stories of the moment?
And I know you’ve been there too. A friend or your brother or wife starts with an excited tone, telling you a story of something they saw or read or heard at some point during that day. Literally the entire time they’re telling the story, I’m thinking “should I tell them to stop or not”. Cause I’ve already heard about everything they’re saying, but they seem so happy to be telling the story.
Man, I’m a jerk. I can’t even enjoy my comrades enthusiasm cause all I’m thinking about is how to let him know that I already know, without bursting his bubble. And oooh believe me, I want him to know that I know. That is of utmost importance.
I can’t play the fool, or the friend, and just roll with it and ask questions and conversate (there’s a wide debate as to whether or not ‘conversate’ is an actual word….did you know that?). I have to be seen as smart, as in-the-know, as a hip cool dude who’s seen the videos, read the blogs, tweeted the tweets and surfed the high heights of the internet. Daily.
We need to chill and be willing to be amazed and surprised. And don’t be a jerk when you already know the punch line.
