Saturday, June 24, 2017
A Sentence Finisher hr595
I don’t like someone to tell me what I’ve already said or known. There’s
no such thing as copyright to what we utter, but I always feel like
claiming it. Actually, I often urge people close to me to admit I’ve
already said what they just said. It doesn’t matter how ridiculously
trivial the issue is. As long as I recognize I’ve said the same thing
before, I declare that I’ve said it before they said it. Even when I
haven’t said it but known it, I can’t help telling them that I’ve known
that. It’s impossible for me to hear through something pretending that I
hear that for the first time or I didn’t know that. My mouth
involuntarily utters “I’ve already said it!” or “I know it!” I’ve had
this irksome habit since I was little. Suppose I said to my mother,
“It’ll be hot tomorrow, I’ll wear summer clothes.” Next morning, when my
mother said, “It’ll be hot today and I put out your summer clothes,” I
instantaneously claimed, “That’s what I said yesterday!” She would go,
“Is it?” And I would go, “Sure it is! I said that! You should add ‘as
you said’!” If I’d heard the weather forecast for rain and my mother
said “It’s going to rain today,” I said, “I know!” at once. As such an
annoying child like that, I gave my parents painful conversations when
they inadvertently touched what I had said or known and forgot to add
‘as you said’ or ‘you may know’. Their experiences must have been so
torturous that my father still hastily adds, “As you said,” when he
talks to me to this day. It seems my childhood practice caused him a
trauma and he sometimes adds ‘as you said’ to what I haven’t said. My
terrible habit hasn’t subsided, it has, rather, aggravated to sentence
finishing. Now I anticipate what someone is going to say and want to say
it before she or he actually says it. I just simply can’t wait for them
to finish once I make out what’s coming. For instance, my partner
begins, “Tomorrow, I’ll…” and I interrupt him, ‘Go to the convenience
store to make a payment for something, right?” The problem is I’m more
than often wrong. My partner answers, “Yeah, that reminds me,” and he
forgets what he was really going to say. My interruptions make our
conversations unnecessarily long and cumbersome. It appears that I want
to be ahead of everything by showing that I know everything beforehand.
And that’s all because I want to appeal how smart I am. No wonder I’ve
been disliked by anyone, including my own blood relatives. Of course I
can imagine there are numerous other reasons for that particular matter…