If you read the about page for this blog, I say that this whole publication is about ADHD. While each individual post is on a different topic, the common thread among them is that I get focused on things for a while, then move onto other things because of my ADHD. Sometimes my projects get abandoned forever, but often I come back to them after a while. Anyway, I was looking at my blog stats and I realized that I can graph them to perfectly represent my ADHD.
When I was a kid and throughout my early adulthood, I never wanted children. In fact, I had a running list with randomly assigned numbers of reasons never to have children. Some people have always wanted children, and I always marvel at these humans.
Just a quick reminder to anyone named Wimpy out there, you promised to pay for your hamburger today. It’s time to collect.
Hopefully you have been enjoying my series on annoying bugs and other kinds of pests! Today is the final installment of this four part series. Feel free to check out the first three parts!
I’ve been writing about the everyday pests I’ve had to deal with throughout my life. Feel free to check out parts I and II!
I’ve promised that this blog will not follow a specific format, theme, or topic. I’d like to continue that trend (of not having a trend) by complaining about the many pest invasions I’ve had to deal with in my lifetime. They have all largely been resolved, and these are spread throughout at least a dozen places I lived throughout the course of my life. Also, I have no idea what this crazy bug is. It was waiting on my steps when I got home today.
Certainly in my lifetime, and probably over the course of the last 50 years or so, a trend has arisen concerning the stated opinions of others. An erosion in how we express ourselves has begun to expose the bedrock of uncertainty. I offer a spectrum of example statements, decreasing in rarity, of this uncertainty.
“It is a mathematical and scientific certainty that you, sir, are a jerk.”
“I have a working theory, which has not been disproven, that you, sir, are a jerk.”
“I hypothesize that you, sir, are a jerk.”
“I am pretty sure that you, sir, are a jerk.”
“I believe that you, sir, are a jerk.”
“I think that you, sir, are a jerk.”
“Like, you know, you are being kind of a little bit of a jerk, sir. Lol.”
“I feel that you, sir, are a jerk.”
Do you notice that as we descend down this list, that the language becomes more and more familiar? Such is no coincidence. In fact, it has become so common place to talk about what we like totally sort of think, or much worse, feel, that we do not bat an eye when news anchors, celebrities, and political figures use this vague language.
I have been struggling to excise using my “feelings” to talk about what are really my beliefs, thoughts, and in some cases, the products of scientific exploration. It is a challenge on the level of reducing the use of distractors like, well, like, umm or errr.
While it is not easy to remove common words from your vocabulary, the effort is worth it. With each step, I move from a realm of uncertainty, to one where I can more clearly unpack the value of my mind through my verbal expressions. Won’t you join me?
Random Jim 