Communication is my elephant.

[azurelunatic]

Of all the things that depress me, I think misunderstandings and miscommunications do so the most.

Never mind what it was about, it's the simple fact that I am good at communicating, and I was unable to. Maybe I thought I'd understood something, and it turned out that I didn't. Maybe I thought I'd gotten something through, and I hadn't. Maybe I'm trying to get something across, and I just keep failing. Maybe someone's trying to tell something to me, and I just can't understand.

Any way it goes, it's the surest way to send me into a mental state where I'm convinced that I'm not fit to associate with any sane human being -- or insane, for that matter.



[Edit: Those able to explain the subject line get geek points.]

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Is it that short story where this fellow went to see the Elephant? (And what he sees is a Kangaroo.)

[azurelunatic]

Nope! *azzgrin*

[thette.livejournal.com]

Since you mentioned geek points, it's not entirely inconceivable that you're referring to Memory.

That is, I think "Communication is the thing I've always secretly desired more than anything else" makes sense.

[azurelunatic]

Geek points!

[thette.livejournal.com]

Yay, geek points!

(Though I feel slightly ashamed for claiming them for Memory. It is, after all, highly quotable and very little obscure.)

[azurelunatic]

Yes, but look at all of those who have never heard of Bujold!

[thette.livejournal.com]

Ignorant louts.

[raaven.livejournal.com]

I think I get geek points! I don't remember which book, but someone is telling Miles (or Miles is telling someone, I'm kinda hazy on that) about a diplomat who, in order to get the support of some pivotal political person on an issue, found and gifted said person with a (small) elephant...which said person had said was all they really wanted.

[azurelunatic]

Miles and Illyan. Memory.

Geek points!