Impulsive?? (460 hits)
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Submitted by drky <drky.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2003-12-11 09:23:46 EST
One of SpikeGoddess's replies to pot8tomanjacks post "Is it bad to be proud of some things?" got me thinking ealier...
"It's really rare for normal mortals (read: slang for non-actors) to actually follow a pure impulse. Think of all the impulses you have every day that you squash, probably up to the point that you aren't really that in touch with many of your impulses. If you were to be put into a room with 10 other people and be told to just follow your impulses (without fucking or hurting anyone) you'd probably stand there totally at a loss, with no impulses to speak of."
Now i know that i experience a real inability to suppress impulses.
Sometimes this is a real problem (especially when stoned) because it causes me to really not be able to function in the standard reality. Other times this is great because it means that my spontaneity causes a series of comedic events and hilarity (occasionally) ensues...
One such example of uncontrollable impulsiveness: The other day i was walking home from work. As i'm walking down one of the backstreets, through the town centre, i can hear this counting.
"Ten," not that loud, but clear...
"Nine," a bit louder
This continues to the point where its reasonably loud the (female) voice has counted down to three and its just dawned on me that the voice is coming from an open second storey window with 'Female gym' stickers all over it and about ten or so visible women doing step aerobics type stuff.
The impulse?
Female voice from window. "TWOooo, ONE!"
Me, i'm directly below window.
I find myself shouting as loud as i can.
"KABOOM!!!!"
With no forethought(that i had made myself aware of).
All the women proceed to stop what they're doing and stare out the window at me.
Ok, no real hilarity but that was just an example.
Last night whilst i was (stoned and) on the loo. I thought to myself. Hmmm, wouldn't the world be a slightly more amusing place if the toilet had mood swings and could bite when angry.
Now there's a strategically(as in can't see it until you've sat down) placed notice on my bathroom wall which informs you that, you should "BEWARE: Toilet May Bite When Angry!"
Also last night i was talking to my flatmate and i became overcome in the middle of a sentence and got stuck on one of the words. Now generally i don't stutter, but i have trouble with sentences, sometimes when stuff should be 'Plugged In' it becomes 'In Plugged'. Anyways I was rambling away and got stuck on some word with a G (as in Guh sound) in the middle of it. My brain found this amusing and two minutes later i found i'd carried on repeating the Guh sound for about half a minute and then gone off into some totally random tale and forgotten my point.
I seem to this lots...
Perhaps i smoke too much weed.
Perhaps i am crazy.
Perhaps both.
Perhaps my brain has developed some new way to think and does background multi-tasking that sometimes just spills out into the main processing area and causes random tangents to come spewing forth out of my mouth.
Anyway, the point i believe i was trying to make is that i have no trouble being impulsive(in fact i definately have trouble controlling my impulses). I often find myself answering ringing payphones, talking to random people in the street about an event which i have just witnessed, and generally doing stuff which i two seconds ago would never have dreamed i would be doing.
Acting on impulse/being spontaneous is great. It keeps life interesting.
SpikeGoddess, thanks for making me think.
I want everybody out there to follow the next impulse they have and then report back as to any following events... or not.
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Submitted by Canadian_Mick (user info) at 2003-12-11 15:42:04 EST (#)
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Why do you keep posting the same crap story?
Submitted by SpikeGoddess (user info) at 2003-12-11 13:55:03 EST (#)
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Yes, being impulsive can be fabulous.
The most important thing is to be able to recognize your urges in the first place. Right now, I have the urge to curl up and hide under my desk and drink my diet Sprite, like a kid pretending that the kitchen table is a fort. Well, I choose not to follow this urge, but at least I know it exists. That way, when I get onstage/go out with friends/am alone in my room/am in bed with a guy, I'll be connected to my impulses.
If someone kills a person and then says, "SpikeGoddess said to follow my impulses" I'm going to be pissed. :-)
SpikeGoddess
Submitted by russizm (user info) at 2003-12-11 10:15:50 EST (#)
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I sometimes mix up words while high, "jolly gee" would be one.
Submitted by drky (user info) at 2003-12-11 10:02:31 EST (#)
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Damn this doubling posting! Damn it to hell!