Preparation Conversation

I've got this smart mom, you see. She "brainwashed" me before kindergarten by opening a book and saying, " Ohhhh... this is so much fun! I love reading!"

And of course, young children are so impressionable especially by parents; I agreed with her and began reading also.

I commend her for doing that for me because by the time I was a preteen I was still reading; I didn't have a problem with it the way the other middleschoolers did.



So this smart mom of mine and I were just talking. It started out with something she read in one of my library books (which I want to read, but she is sort of hogging it haha). We were both discussing views on certain topics, one of mine being a state of absoluteness. This world we all live in is all connected, no ifs and maybes. People have categorized things because to them things are grouped with common other things. My mother says its my "multiple intelligences" that is able to help me put these things together, because I lean towards both my left and my right brains while my sister is right brained, and my brother is more left brained. I'm the middle child with the balanced brain. For example, math and art are connected in a way that when I am drawing I am seeing it from a mathematical point of view using proportions and when I am computing, I look at it from an artistic way as if I'm visually piecing together a puzzle. (Puzzle: the perfectly balanced activity of life involving right and left brains)



Another thing noteworthy is handling emotional situations depends on our ability of self control. If everytime a person heard someone was "talking about them behind their back", if that person would wait twenty-four to forty-eight hours before taking action, the world would be in a lot better condition, that is if every situation was handled in this way. Instead of immediately texting the person who talked about you and attacking them, if you waited, you would most likely come to the conclusion that either that person was right for saying it or was wrong, and instead of handling the situation out of anger, there would be a better thought out plan.

Back to my mom ---> we were simply discussing some of these things, when she let her emotions act their role, and things began to snowball. I began to watch her facial expressions instead of listening to what she was saying and I kept quiet, hoping this snowball of information would end. Her eyebrows stayed elevated and all I could think was, her forehead is going to have severe wrinkles because she never relaxes her face when she is talking.
Her stress levels were up, and we were simply talking. I wanted it to end. She was beginning to talk to herself, and I believe she may need to start her own blog.

This is not the only time I have had these feelings. Sometimes I wonder if while I am thinking about her future wrinkles, am I missing out on vital information. One day things may click for me and I will think "Oh.. my mom said something about that once.. I should have listened."