My feet are cold.

Here I sit, mostly dressed, not yet having had breakfast, checking a few things on the pooter, and no doubt running out of time to put some toast on - which I should be doing right now, but here I am 'blogging'!

And although I am mostly ready to leave for work this morning, I do not yet have my shoes on, and it occurred to me that my feet are a little bit cold - physically - this has nothing to do with any big decision or anything like that - my feet are actually cold.

And it makes me think that although this has not been a year of really cold nights, it has been a year of many cold night. Yes we have had colder nights in outright terms - gone below zero once or twice in recent years where I live - it seems colder this year. And I think it is just because there are more of the colder ones.

If I was to check, I would probably find even that is just an impression.

But it also is maybe because this time last year I was still riding my bike to work most of the time - and when it is really cold, you just get pedaling and warm up. I don't know but maybe I didn't notice it so much because I just expected to get cold.
Now I am walking to the train, I wear a jacket at the moment, and because it is a fair walk, I actually end up opening the jacket to cool myself off - it gets warm when you are exercising in a jacket - and then I can feel the cold.

Isn't it funny how "impressions" can be different from facts?

Impressions are based on how we feel, or how things look or appear to be - but the reality, or the facts, can be very different.

I have found that when I listen to much to what I am feeling I get myself into trouble, but when I stop and consider the facts I get myself out of trouble.

It happens when someone is talking to you - you hear someone say something to you and the impression you get is one thing, but what they said is quite different. But I jump to what I feel has been said, and get into verbal trouble....

I have found the same thing on forums that I have visited - people often don't read the posts fully (or it is badly written), but just skim picking up on a few little points and then 'flame' the person for something they didn't actually say. And it them matters nothing at all how much the person tries to explain, the scene is set and the fight is on, and the respondent will not let up on the "defense of what is right" (to their eyes).

We get that way in real life too - I have been on both sides of it too - either saying something that is taken the wrong way, or responding wrongly to something someone said.

Sometimes, no matter which side you end up one, it can best just to shut my mouth and let it blow over, then start a different and unrelated conversation when things have settled and calmed down.

Or maybe I just shouldn't be so dumb in the first place - but then again, I am just a dumb bloke.

Skellibert