The 10 Seconds People Think About You

Today at little caeser's Nick and I talked about worrying about what people think of you...

He said that generally ... you shouldn't worry about what people think of you... because essentially... someone might think about you for 10 seconds and then forget you. Especially when you aren't around...

It makes sense I suppose... I know that was Nathan's biggest problem... if you weren't in his direct line of sight... essentially you don't... exist.. and it was up to everyone else to keep in touch... which now that he does not have a cell phone... keeping in contact is impossible...

but that's another story... back to the ten seconds...

Isn't that... isn't that part of what scares us though? Oh we say we're worried about what people think... but isn't more that they don't think... that your existence in or out of their life has absolutely no consquence or care to them... If someone only thinks about you for maybe 10 seconds and then gets on with their life... can that possibly be true...

I think about lots of people all the time... and certainly for more than 10 seconds... but do those people think about me? Probably not. And isn't that was drives us nuts... isn't that why we do what we know will get us attention... like ignoring someone who flips out by being ignored... or buying things for someone because you know then they are kinda obligated to spend some sort of time with you.... or anything really, crying, yelling, telling jokes... isn't that what life is... a never ending battle to be remembered for more than 10 seconds.

maybe it's something i should think about more... and perhaps i should stop worrying so much about whether or not i'm making people mad. Because unless they have a memory like this guy in what is slowly becoming my favorite soup clip this year... I really shouldn't worry about it.