Two traits that I both have and have not.
- Patient. I can be patient and impatient about the same thing at the same time. I can be bubbling with frustration on the inside while telling myself to be patient and acting patient. Above all I am impatient with myself while I make a great effort to be patient with other people. In this as in other things, I am not as kind towards myself as I am towards others.
- Calm. Again something I strive for and most of the time achieve externally but not always internally.
So perhaps these are traits that I pretend to have.
Or: that I don’t quite have but find desirable and strive for.
Or: traits that I do have but that conflict with other parts of me, and therefore get expressed more or less at various times.
Extrospection
Not necessarily being a smart-aleck by countering with an antonym, I just spontaneously thought of the meaning of its opposite anyway,
which is not an opposite at all. Curiously I think of Nature. There are wider definitions of the two, but both has to be added that
meaning by at least some sort of practice of the first – in depth, beyond semantics. They oppose, but even then not necessarily in a bad way.
So a clean example of Extrospection, as I see it, right now; is being forced by Nature to cut directly to the core of a situation imposed
by Nature, or what is a fact. I mean Nature in a tangible sense.
http://www.ladda-upp.se/bilder/mxpuvjbzlsjlaz/
http://om.yr.no/forklaring/symbol/vind/
So, this is what to expect, tomorrow – its tangible Nature, like I said.
What to do? – Extrospect! Or expect the unexpected, or some other cliche. It wasn’t expected at all a few days ago though.
Either way, it wouldn’t help much anyway. Facing inevitability, perhaps, you extrospect..!? Hmmm…
Haven’t even thought of it this way previously, but it has happened before and now I think of both as one idea that has both sides present.
At occasions introspections lesser known sibling is called for, like tomorrow. Makes sense. So does a blown off roof as well.
Ergo: The roof blew off the house, since it was a windy day.
Or: The boat was smashed into smithereens and most of it floats around in tiny pieces, while the rest of it is scattered ashore.
A new definition may be born –
I guess we´ll just have to wait and see.
B.