Do not lie for lack of news. [1]
The other day, someone asked me
"What's new?"
Such a simple question, retrieved from the greeting array and thrown out there on demand.
Why is it so hard to answer?
Like a status report at work or coming home from school, it's exhausting to categorize your response in 2 seconds.
I need my elevator pitch for myself ready and that requires planning. Like this:
- Planted something in the garden (focus on item)
- Talked to
<so and so>today (deflect to someone else's news) - Still working on
<long term project...>; making good headway (future news) - Not much (either go away or a good friend ;-})
<something in the public sensational news lately>(my inner activist)- I wanted to ask your advice about
<something>(empathy)
Who could remember more than 6 of these brain numbing ideas. Anyway, I'll write them down somewhere, hopefully I can remember when my 2 seconds are up.
- Bulgarian Proverb
-- Don Cohoon
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