Should I and if yes, how should I, react to someone who says something nasty…
Have I interpreted it as something nasty when it may have been just an innocent failed attempt at humor?
I just entered in my office elevator when I heard running footsteps. As I always do, I pressed the ‘door open’ button thinking that someone wanted to enter. Suddenly a women’s leg covered with a heavy boot kicked the space between the closing doors of the elevator. Shocked, I felt lucky that the kick missed me…A lady entered and said ‘thanks’ and then added ‘not that you had a choice’…she smiled a tiny wry smile.
I was too stunned to comment…Did I misunderstand her? Did she not realize that I had also played a tiny but non-violent part (as against her kick) in getting her in this ride of the elevator? Was it the kick that stunned me or the combination of the kick and the comment? or the fact that I had pressed the elevator button for her and then had to hear that comment from her. Well….
I take small walks near my office and observe so many things. My aim is to just walk where my feet take me. I find myself taking new routes every day or observing something new everyday. I want to jot down these observations, ideas. I build my own little hypotheses based on these observations and thoughts. Da Vinci made his notebooks pictorial. It will be difficult for me to draw. I am more fluent in writing than drawing. But definitely, drawing would convey so much more.