darkly!

[scottopic]

I worry I'm too much of a mirror. My voice tends to match patterns and accents of those around me -- even if it makes no sense (I apologize, Jean-Francois, I've never even been to France, yet I feel I must have a staccato lilt, too!).
If someone is unhappy, I get moody. If I watch a movie, I identify with selected characters as if they were a long-lost twin.
Give me a brazen motto, and make it sound good, and it's my new religion.

I once laughed and said that my epitaph would be a pair of quotes. " "

I wonder from whom I plagiarized that?

Give me ten minutes...I reorient this and call it Post-Modern!


*grumble*
her flight is delayed in the Planet Houston...

Comments

[onesoul.livejournal.com]

I think of it more as "setting others at ease." If you can mirror words, tone, and body language then it goes a long way unconsciously (you already know all this ;) to making others feel comfortable. I see it as a good thing, you have always made me glorious.

And hooray for the hot greek coming back home!

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

aw :)

congratulations on your newfound notoriety, by the way!

[onesoul.livejournal.com]

yeah... like it is so hard to hang out with beautiful people feeling sexy... you know you have one of them as well... sooo tough ;)

[jaydedone.livejournal.com]

I actually do much the same thing. I'm an amalgam of all the different habits and thoughts I've stolen from others.

Maybe I didn't feel this way until YOU expressed it. Well, okay, I actually did, but it's interesting to hear someone else note it in themselves.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Maybe I didn't feel this way until YOU expressed it
hahahaha!

[christine9600.livejournal.com]

You're a psychic vampire!! Oh, noooooes! As you would say. Hehehehehehehe! You're just very empathetic. I do the same thing and it drives me crazy, too. But that's alright. At least we aren't Scientologists or Yankees. Time to get your hate on, Yankees! Heh...'

I'm sorry she's delayed. But it will make the reunion that much sweeter! Ya want me to call Houston and yell at them for being stoopid?

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

All of Planet Houston shall kneel before Zod!!!

[christine9600.livejournal.com]

Dude! Ya know what's really weird about that chick? I don't know her damn name. Anyway, her ex husband, the General dude who Vader choked with the force in one of the Star Wars? You can tell I'm a big Star Wars fan. Anyway, that dude was a guest at Dragon*Con two years ago. Thomas and I were having dinner with that guy and some other people and the guy would not SHUT UP about how I looked just like his ex wife, that chick. Every time I saw the motherfucker at con, he would tell me how much I looked like her and then he'd hit on me without shame. It was really creepy. I don't think I look that much like her, but apparently that weirdo thought so.

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

I can relate.

One of my favorite quotes is "I am a part of all I have met."

[photognome.livejournal.com]

I think we all do that to some degree. As a matter of fact, everytime I see you, I feel a little more inscrutable.... ;-)

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

::Nod::
Am not so different.

[theinnocence.livejournal.com]

at least her last words weren't "i'm gonna go gets some ciggeretts"

[servingdonuts.livejournal.com]

"Me too."

[unrepentant.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever noticed you imitating my speech pattern... Do I even HAVE one?

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do. I don't think I've duplicated it, consciously or not.

By the way, I have something for you!

[theinnocence.livejournal.com]

ooo is it a kick to the thraot!
i've always wanted to see one of those!

[adrienmundi]

You've seen me do similar things, and worry about them. When I'm feeling generous to myself (and by extension, to others who do it to; much more the latter than the former, usually), I tend to think of it as trying to come into synch/rhythmn with another.

[wasabirabbit.livejournal.com]

Hey dude. Heh. Still going to 80's tomorrow night? I'm hoping you and yer lovely woman will join me!! Oh and email me your digits. My cell is gone and a new one is on the way.

[celticmoni.livejournal.com]

I find myself doing the same thing.

...and, Houston has cheap Wi-Fi. ;)

[shatteress.livejournal.com]

When I was little, I could always tell what sort of phone call my mother was on by the way she was talking... I could tell she was talking to her best friend because she'd talk like her, or it was our gossipy redneck neighbor on the line if she suddenly had a southern accent. I catch myself doing the same thing sometimes. I absorb things from others unconsciously and adapt my speech mannerisms. Oddly, my friend's parants once told her that she was starting to talk like me! Go figure. I thought I just talked like her, and everyone else. When two people who do this talk, how do they know who to adapt to?

[catholicpsyche.livejournal.com]

You're the most highly evolved.

On Rumi, from Maryline Lostia:

The creation of the world is the living work of the greatest artist, yet in creating the world, God did nothing other than create a mirror, as demonstrated in the hadith qudsi (sacred word) in which God says, "I was a hidden treasure, and I desired to be known. I created the world in order to be known by it."

In the Rumi tradition of Sufi mysticism, the artist unveils the beauty of Creation, thereby bringing us closer to Being. The best artist, according to the master, is the one most adept at reflecting Creation. The passivity of the artistic mind as the contemplator of beauty is illustrated by a parable that Rumi tells in his work, Mathnawi: in order to pick the best artists a sultan set up a contest between the Chinese and the Greeks, giving each an opposite wall to decorate. A curtain separated them.The Chinese deployed all their graphic talents, while the Greeks tirelessly shined their wall day after day. Once the curtain was raised, it was the reflection of the Chinese frescoes on the polished wall of the Greeks that aroused the most admiration. The Greeks, for Rumi, were the authentic artists; the purity of the mirror evoked the purity of their hearts, which had the capacity to receive innumerable images. As for the artist, so for the saint, for according to Rumi "the perfect saint preserves within himself the infinite form without form of the Invisible as reflected in the mirror of his own heart."

you are just making it easier...

[schartok.livejournal.com]

...for others to pull from you what they are looking for, is all.

those who accept the surface and move on make little to no impact and are thus facilitated away. those who probe deeper are more apt to get a dose of scott with their breakfast. those who sit and bide awhile may appreciate you with less effort on your part, because they know they must approach with no expectations, and are rewarded in proportion to what they bring with them.