Thursday, 30 January 2025

Well meaning others

 When a very well meaning other attempts to revise your text or reformat your images it is unlikely to be successful UNLESS you don’t have your own well developed ideas on what you want the text to say and how you want the images to look.


And I assume based on experience a well meaning other might think that how they see the world is an improvement on how you see it. And rather than try to stay close to what you ask of them they can’t help but try to open your eyes to what, in their eyes, is an improvement.

But sometimes in other areas of life ‘the knowing better’ comes into play. A friend of mine who had a cabin in a forest had a stove fashioned out of an oil drum. And to work well it needed a certain size of logs. 
In submitting an order for the logs she needed she specified the size. It was difficult to get bigger logs through the opening of the stove.

When the ordered logs arrived they were the bigger sized logs. And the man who made the delivery said he thought the bigger logs would be better for her.

It was that friend who first brought this conundrum to my attention and whether it is through an increased awareness or increased occurrences I’ve been more aware and experienced more examples of it ever since.