A propos of ‘Outsider’...
Years ago I saw an experiment where a group of randomly chosen young students (who presented as a happy, sociable, very confident group.of about 20) were asked to write an essay on how they
really saw themselves....within certain parameters such as social ease, like-ability, integration etc.
Then someone pretending to be able to paranormally read personalities instantly, met each of them separately for a few seconds, then told them what he sensed about their most hidden traits.
With the first person, the ‘Psychic Personality Reader’ was instantly able to tell him things like;
- you feel unsure of whether others really like you
- you feel like an outsider; the odd one out
-you feel everyone else fits more easily into the group etc
-you feel a lot less confident than you portray yourself.
-you are often lonely in a crowd. Etc etc.
And the student couldn’t believe how accurate the instant ‘reading’ was. He was amazed. How had this psychic been able to see into his deepest secret feelings?
Opening the essay and reading it aloud confirmed what the ‘psychic’ had already said.
And the same thing happened with all the students....each of them having written pretty much the same things about being somehow ‘different’ etc. All were amazed that the psychic could see into their hidden fears and thoughts.
Of course there was nothing ‘psychic’ about the personality reader. He was just examining an aspect of the human condition (for most of us).
Perhaps Adam is far more ‘normal’ than he perceives himself.
And I don’t think there’s anything ‘outsider’ about loving Adam. We are all outsiders in some way and some of us love Adam.
(I am in Moscow....love it...freezing my tail off...doing my Englishwoman abroad thing of smiling at everyone because I understand nothing - and nodding like one of those toy car dogs so they’ll like me - and saying thank you, thank you, thank you when one thank you would do fine...
Good job I didn’t have to write an essay for the ‘psychic’
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