I love assumptions. I always did, as I realised today. Only I didn’t/ couldn’t put a finger on it. I used to, when faced by a seemingly silly situation, go into a monologue which sounded something like this, “what exactly is he/she/they thinking?” or “does he/she think I have nothing better to do in my free time than to talk about him/her with XYZ”. And in most probability these questions would be followed by an “As If!!!”.
I think this derives from my interest in psychology- I like to know how, why and what people think; how they reach conclusions which seem logical to them but utterly senseless and even hideous in many-a-situations.
Since I have given the historical framework (yawn!!) for my fascination with assumptions lets get our hands dirty. The assumptions I am rambling about, that happened this morning, were that of a professor. For the sake of creating an utter chaos and dis-clarity in your heads I shall call this professor as A. After having discussed my abysmal performance in class, ‘it’ (continuing with my effort to confuse you!!)…’it’ enquired about my summer placements. Maruti, I replied with great pride only to be met with a self-satisfying smirk and an almost snide remark about if I had landed that through a personal contact.
And the fun part was that there wasn’t even an ‘or’ followed by the question. There was no doubt in A’s head about my inability to score a good company for myself. And yes, it does seem I’m stretching it out of proportion, but let’s consider the case facts. It knows that I am a lacklustre performer. It knows my father can, if needed, can get me a decent enough placement. And the framing of the question itself. Better option after asking ‘where’ could have been ‘how’. Simple, sweet, non-humiliating.
And hence, the assumption was : this gal ain’t one of them HiPo’s, although she is a HIPPO!!! Must have had her dad pull some good strings…who else, why else would someone take her. OUCH!!!!!
Hypothesis interest me. And I interest some peculiar hypothesises.
Meenu sad :(
*Meenu-reference: Innu (taare zameen par blog!!!)
2 comments:
haww... who's this A? (I strongly suspect one creature- coz somehow i believe that the other one we had a class with today, somehow belongs to a more cultured breed..)
poohey on these A's of the world..
And they are all over the place mind you; only it pains me to think of any Prof pull off such a lesser-act...
okies...
altho m almost 3 weeks late...but
the identity of A is not the moot issue here...(and ps,u already noe this evil that is A. bent my arm and made me spill it dint u??)
but shorry for the delay here.
the newbie aplologises to the old warhorse....altho in blogging world u only a month older!!
cheers!!
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