i live in a binary reality. you do, too, but you don’t realize it. well, you realize it or you don’t.

but that’s a discussion for another day. today’s thought is how to divide people. or perhaps more accurately, how people divide themselves without any interactivity and the subsequent results.

i am what i would call a polarizing personality. if you have met me, you either like me or you don’t. usually a lot of one or the other. you are not indifferent. i find this to be curious, since most people are willing to fight to the death that they don’t think of things in black and white, as i do. makes me rather curious, though. i’m open to suggestions as to why this is the case but i’m going to explore a few of them. i believe that people react this way to everyone but that they are not prepared to actually display it. i’m not sure why but i think it has something to do with an ancient concept called tact.

i don’t do tact, though, so i don’t tend to receive it.

i have narrowed impressions down to a short list of factors – speech, thought, action, aura. it’s going to be one or more of these that do it.

people react to the way that i speak. i know this. it has been mentioned repeatedly. i speak like i write. and you can see how i write. it’s not how you expect words to be handled. oops. i don’t know why that would make people love or hate me, though. moving on.

thought. ah. that’s a more dangerous proposition. thoughts are the realm of dissent. there are two schools of thought, pardon the reference, that exist. one is that all thoughts are equal and that people have something valuable to contribute. the other is that thoughts are meant to be just that, thought, then processed, defended, and spoken. it’s not that i don’t believe that you have something valuable to say. i just don’t think it’s a given that everything out there is worth listening to. i’m not going to change my mind unless i have a very good reason to do it. it’s not that it’s not going to happen. it’s that if i’ve bothered to think something, i’ve got a very solid ground for it. and that means that to shift it, it’s going to take some doing. and i’m easily bored. i don’t like debate and argument. i simply want to act, to enjoy, to exist, and to teach.

which brings us to action. i act without regard for tradition, common thought or practice, or some antiquated view of right and wrong. can you say that you’re that free? this could have something to do with the black-and-whiteness of it.

and the aura.

do you feel what i feel?

is it confidence? arrogance? enjoyment? hate?

your turn. black or white?