Advice is something i have been thinking about a lot recently. it confuses me because you have to trust someone's judgment on your own life, when they are judging it from an outsiders perspective. in some ways another person can have a more objective view of your problem you are seeking advice about. but ultimately it is you that has to live with the problem and deal with whatever actions you take to alleviate the problem (with or without the secondary person's advice). Someone else will never completely understand your predicament, obviously. but you yourself areso emotionally attached to a problem you may have and this may obscure your ability to gauge what is the right thing to do. but at the same time, perhaps only YOU know what is the right thing to do. but what if you don't (and that is probably why you are seeking advice). it is such a catch-22. sometimes there is no clear answer and talking to someone about a problem may make you feel a bit better but not ever help form a clear-cut solution to an issue. I don't know.
One thing I do know is i really should of finished the book Catch-22, considering how often I seem to encounter/ talk about them. I borrowed it during a period of time when I wasn't very able to read that much, and I ended up having the book for so long its owner wanted it returned. And considering she is from the Czech Republic, and is currently in Sheffield, I think I may need to locate my own copy if i ever want to finish it.
in other news the postal strike has meant LOVEFILM have extended my 1 month free trial by 2 weeks. I watched The Science of Sleep earlier in the week which is about a boy called Stephan who gets his dreams confused with his reality. I really liked it, but it had some subtitles and i was really tired, so probably didn't enjoy it to its full extent. I am able to watch films on my own now though, I never used to be able to do that, partially due to having a terrible attention span (linked to why i was unable to read books for a while) and feeling lonely.
Also Jess is home this weekend, Pete is home the weekend after that and Kirsty is home the weekend after that (i think) which means good people are around to break up a mad November of working and living at home. hopefully I will be able to book Scandinavia soon as well as I get paid on the 5th of November.
ALSO, why is Ferne Cotton so annoying and also everywhere.
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Fern sucks :(
ReplyDeletealso, you can influence what advice someone gives you by altering the story you tell them in favour of a particular outcome, therefore preempting what advice you want to hear. or people can give you the advice they think you want to hear rather than the most appropriate advice. it is so confusing.
ReplyDeleteYeah deffo, people quite often omit details so that things seem more one sided and then they will get adivce more suited to bias situation rather than the actual one. And not only do people say what they think the other person wants to hear but people often only hear what they want to hear! Arrrrrgh at situations and advice and people in general!!
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