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Posted by james on March 27, 2001

People can't stand asking questions. There's so many times I feel misunderstood, or just not understood at all, and I'm amazed how few questions I get. I would love for people to bluntly ask "What did you mean by that?", "What are you thinking?", or even say "I think that was an incredibly horrible thing to say." I guess there's something we grow up with that tells us that asking questions is bad manners.

Maybe it's our fear of being exposed. A question can expose as much about what we're thinking as simply speaking our mind. But not voicing your thoughts outright doesn't have to affect things too much, while by leaving out all your questions you choose to put yourself in the dark.

I'd rather embarrass myself in my questions and look like a fool than to never know what a person was thinking and live on suspicions and false assumptions. But then again, I choose to embarrass myself every day by simply stating my thoughts. That, and the questions I choose to ask are mostly simple things. That's what I'm interested most times, the simple things.