The following is a tongue-in-cheek response given within a Forum to a member who is attempting to improve upon what nature endowed her with. This comment is of the calibre of Tolkein's clever Bilbo Bagginsism: I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. It is certainly a perspective to confound cognitive psychologists with and an brilliant example Mercury's word-trickery.
I suspect it is my Wilde self that gathers nutty sayings like this...or perhaps it is Just Me who enjoys clever turns of phrases and rapier-sharp wits.
""We can say goodbye and then hello, or hello and then goodbye. Although some may find it difficult to say goodbye to the person they imagined you to be as this may question who they thought they might be. If they want to remain who they are, then they may feel who you now are, is not who you told them you were, and feel disapponted. Or they may feel who you were is not who they thought you were and are pleased another you is more like who they wanted you to be.
Some may try to talk you out of it for these reasons and others talk you more into it. Others may struggle to know who you now are and remain silent; unsure who the you is and not want to address the wrong one. Others may say this new you was to be expected in the circumstances.
The important thing is one of you decides if this is suitable. My 2 cents is that the before the new you you would need little encouragement so it may be a way of finding out how much this new you is you or not you, or a temporary you.
To shorten the reply I could have used u instead of you, like the youff today do, but felt the use of a u not a you may have been an inappropriate decision in relation to what has happened to you, or you or us.""
That's So Weird: Alan Bellows at damninteresting explaining the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon which I had never heard of before, yet look forward to hearing about a whole lot more.
Image: one of King Herod's several private bathhouses in the ruins of Masada, showing the pillars which supported the floor. Outside a furnace would send hot air under the floor, creating steam. Middle of winter here in Australia: I sure could go a good steambath right now.
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