About Rumours...

The sensitive, rational being was trying to find reasons why she was the way she was. She was unusually shy and excessively sensitive. She felt abnormal. But really, she was just a bit different. And just because you're different doesn't mean you're crazy. But try telling that to a seventeen-year-old girl. The sensitive, rational being used to think that there was something wrong with her because she was so much more withdrawn and afraid of hurt feelings and hurting feelings than so many she knew. But that was just her personality. People doubted her personality. They called her crazy.

"You looked fine when I saw you at Terra's party" said the insensitive, irrational being who believes everything he hears. That's because she was fine. But he still doubted her personality. Funny how everybody thinks she's crazy simply because one or two popular people whom she did not even know said so. They assumed that she was crazy because she was a little different, a little odd. And they didn't know her. Now, they're going to do everything in their power to make their lies true. And if that's at the expense of hurting the feelings of someone they don't even know … well, what do they care about that? They know they can't have their lies back. What they've said and done is said and done and they can't unsee and undo them. The damage is done. They've spread their spiritless fibs and they can't unspread their spiritless fibs. So they've used every excuse in their wits to make them true, to fallaciously reason for themselves that their judgements and assumptions and lies were true. But telling a child that she is crazy just because she's different is a bigger mistake in reason than the teenage girl herself feels as she wants to be alone all of the time, afraid of being hurt. But no matter how badly they want her to be crazy, no matter how badly they want their lies to be true, she will not make them true for them. She is a sensitive, rational being and she will not stoop to their insensitive, irrational level of believing and spreading lies.

To say things with certainty about people you don't even know is a pretty irrational thing to do. And it often makes you look irrational, too. You can make a bad assumption about a good person that in the end will make you look ridiculous. This happened to those who hurt the sensitive, rational being. They called her insensitive and irrational. This confused all of those who had gotten to know her and care about her for who she really was. So many of those who saw her for what she really was even said that it "made no sense". Of course it made no sense. If you talk about things you know nothing about then it's going to make no sense. The insensitive, irrational being who believes everything he hears knew nothing about the sensitive, rational being. So what he said about her made no sense.

People believe everything they hear and they look for patterns in behaviour to justify what they believe. Even though the patterns of behaviour they see are often no more abnormal than what they will see in many others. Irrational behaviour is often attributed to dementia. But the sensitive, rational being is very rational and she knows she is. She feels for others and she reasons things even though sometimes she lets her mind go. Those who let their mouths go before their minds often have no such control.

Elaine 06