The Life and Times of S

Insights II

So, on my drive back home today from work, I passed by a high end clothing store and I remembered a conversation I had with my current boss, C.P., a couple of weeks ago.

While I was enjoying some nice home made chocolate one afternoon in his office, for some bizarre reason he wanted to tell me about some medieval king, whose name started with an 'h' by the way, who had fought a war in the Swiss Alps. He couldn't remember the name so he asked another girl on the team. She immediately knew who he was talking about. I looked at them both and asked them why on Earth they would know or care to remember something useless like that. And she turned around and jokingly said, "Because sometimes people know stuff that is not in fashion magazines."

My jaw dropped.
And I laughed. A lot.

I laughed because I thought that was funny, although I knew that she meant what she had jokingly just said.

Anyway, a few minutes later, I whined to C.P., laughingly again, that I could not believe that she thought what she did.

And in the following exact words, he said, "You know its not you. I know its not you. But its this fake persona you put out there, for a reason I will never understand or know, that makes other people think the way they do about you."

I was taken by surprise not by his matter-of-factness.
But by the truth in his statement.

posted by S @ 7:28 PM