A Few Obvious Theses on How to Interact With Others
Posted in Life & Death on January 3rd, 2009 by DanielYou must always tell people exactly what is going on in your interactions. This includes your intentions, your thoughts and your feelings.
In doing so, you can neither exaggerate, deflate or misrepresent any of these things. You have to be precise, if not for yourself, because the other person deserves that precision.
You must never assume that someone else already knows what you are thinking or want when you have not explicitly verbalized these things. It is not possible to be sure of these things, and as there is a fantastic weight carried by the ephemeral things we usually see as existing “in our minds,” one cannot or should not act on assumptions about what someone else thinks or feels.
Anything less than the kind of explicit, overt, clear communication with others is, and this is the precise word for it, cowardly. This being the case, we are all therefore cowards.