Two Rules for Life
So here’s the deal. It should help you relate to me, assuming you even care to.
Rule 1: I don’t know anything you don’t tell me.
I know, insanity. But mind reading is a pain in the butt, and I’m not real fond of using up all that energy. So let’s just start assuming that if you didn’t tell me a given thing, then I don’t know it. I don’t know how you feel. I don’t know what you think. I don’t know that you had a hard day at work, though honestly I probably do know that, because that’s the type of short term, superficial shit that people talk about. But your long term thoughts and overall plans and opinions of things? Of people? Of our friends? Of me? I have no idea. None. Did you tell me? No? Then I don’t know.
Oh, but you hinted at it? Seriously? Yeah, I don’t care. Screw subtle. No one outside of spy games likes subtle. We’re all good at subtle because we don’t like arguing and we don’t like rejection. So instead we are subtle until we are confident that we are in like minded company. But… everyone is subtle. So no one knows anything. We think we do. We assume we all know what each other thinks. But we don’t. Not really. I used to be like everyone else. I assumed I knew what you thought. What you felt about any given thing. But I don’t really. I might get it right. I could guess and I bet I would be correct most of the time. But do I know? Again, did you tell me? No? Then no, why is this hard?
This also goes for things that you don’t think. Unless you tell me that you don’t think a thing, or tell me that you do think the opposite, I don’t know what you think. Don’t assume silence is an answer. Silence is NEVER an answer. It’s nonsense is what it is. All silence tells anyone is that you may or may not be thinking a certain thing. Which I know is crazy. Maybe it never crossed your mind, so how would you know to comment on it? You wouldn’t, and that’s fine. But today, let me tell all of you out there…
If you didn’t say it to me, I don’t know.
… that’s it for now. I’m working on being more blunt. We’ll see how it works. I’m not doing well, but I’m trying.
I know I only gave one rule, but in the middle of my rant, I forgot where I was going with rule 2, so that can wait for another day. 
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