Monday, March 12, 2007

The Bad twins: Change and Same.

Originally posted as a comment over on *'s blog.

Warning, this may or may not be coherent.

I think we all have two little monsters inside. One is called Changebad, the other is called Samebad. Each time you try a change and it doesn't work, it's like you poke Changebad and he gets a little bigger. Vice versa with Samebad. As long as they stay more or less the same size, they keep each other busy and you get to change or stay the same, whatever you like. But if one of them gets too big, it gets to ignore the other one and boss you around.

The catch is that if you aren't paying attention, other people can poke your Changebad and Samebad.

When other people get upset because you tried a change and it worked out, they're listening to their Changebad. Nothing you can do about that; that's between them and their monsters. But when they grump at you, or withdraw, then they're trying to poke your monsters. Just say "Hey! Stop poking my Changebad!" They' look at you like you're on glue, and you can tell them this story, and maybe it'll help. Or maybe they'll smile kinda funny and edge away like you're a crazy person. Either way you get your space. :)

Now I want to make T-shirts that say "Stop poking my Changebad!" on the front and "Stop poking my Samebad!" on the back.

James

Labels: geekery, I think too much

1 Comments:

april said...: I work at a school, oddly both my "twins" are poked at least once a day by students...lol
I think that they enjoy sharpening their teeth on someone who doesn't take offence...; 8:16 PM