we all know the story. we all know they saying. assumption is the mother of all... but apart from that assumption is something that gets my blood boiling. i don’t know why. it just does. so after a recent situation i decided to put some thoughts together to find the root of all evil...concerning assumption that is. what i realised was that it lies embedded in the fact that i don’t like it when people assume they know who you are. when they assume they are your friend. and that turns into them claiming a piece of you. a piece of your time. they do that emotional blackmail thing...or try to at least. they suck you dry because you might have an inspiring personality or something likewise. or when people assume they understand the way you feel or experience situations. drives me mad. it makes me feel as if people are stereo typifying me or placing me in a box. figured out and labelled. wowee! freaks me out. cos if there is one thing that i seriously despise it is the thought of being a caged animal. after all the hissing and the growling i searched for a proper definition. this is what the web came up with: an assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted; it is the act of taking possession or asserting a claim. it is the act of taking for granted; acting with presumption and arrogance. wowee! a lot of bad words in those phrases. the worst for me must be “taken for granted”. the last thing anybody in this world deserves is being taken for granted because someone else is acting on an assumption. but then again “asserting claim” is perhaps worse.
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