For some reason I've been either blessed or cursed, depending on the situation, with the ability to pick up on people's moods. I can tell as soon as someone walks into my house or office if they are happy, sad, mad, angry, you name it I can tell. The problem is sometimes it gets on me. I can be in a happy, bluebird singing, not a care in the world mood and someone can bring in the angry, put upon, dirge chanting mood and it crawls across the floor, drags itself up my leg and gets right in my head. I've tried telling myself that its not my mood so they can keep it. I've tried telling myself that I have the invisible forcefield and the cone of silence and it can't get in. I've tried telling myself that some people like to miserable and so I should be happy that they are miserable. It's a lot harder to go about your happy mood than you think.
Some people are oblivious to other peoples moods and it makes the angry people mad at them. Of course, that doesn't matter either because they are oblivious to the fact that the angry people are mad at them for not picking up on their mood and begging them to give the bad mood to them. I'm jealous of those people! Of course it does get them in trouble from time to time. The passive-aggressives think you are ignoring them or don't understand them. Others think you have no sympathy for their pain as the oblivious go through their life singing and smiling. I wish I was oblivious too. I wish when someone came around me in a bad mood, my good mood would bounce across the floor and jump on their head. That rarely happens, but I'm going to work on making it happen more. Who ever said that someone's anger was more important than my happiness? If someone did say it I'm sure it was an angry person and I hope someone's happiness bounced upside their head until they shut up.
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Hey, I was bowled over by the second sentence, where you can differentiate between "mad" and "angry"! Man, that's SUBTLE! Unless, of course, you mean "mad" in the sense of "barking mad", in which case your powers of perception are not so impressive. It's easy to spot someone crazy if they're naked on the roof humping the chimney (that image courtesy of Alex--don't thank me).
Oh, and since I know you, I must inform you that you know perfectly well that you do NOT wish to be oblivious, so get off it. Guess you'll have to work on that last plan, and send you happy upside folks' heads. Send some out here, OK?
I love this post.
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