I have come across some video clips from different movies in which the antagonist has a super power to hear the thoughts of people. Whatever the people around them think, they may hear it as the spoken words. The power is demonstrated as a gift with which they are able to protect themselves or others from the bad intentions of people.
I contemplated on if such a power exists and I acquire it, what the life would become for me. Imagination of the consequences gave me shivers, and I realized the ability is not a gift but a curse.
Imagine sitting on coffee shop and voices of irrelevant people getting into ears. The noise would be enough to drive anyone insane and be never in a social setting again.
Noise aside, if we are simply able to dig in the mind of people listening to every crude thought, we are likely to find most of the people undesirable. It, in turn, will effect our own attitude and behaviour in a negative way. It is going to destroy our own mental wellbeing creating more distrust and disgust for most of the people.
I am not saying that everyone around has undesirable thinking. Nevertheless, I believe, everyone of us keeps on experiencing not so desirable thoughts on and off. Some of them are so inappropriate that we ourselves feel ashamed of thinking them, let alone telling them to others.
Additionally, knowing the secrets of so many people is an emotional burden. The cognitive load is prone to lead to stress and burn out, which in turn has consequences on our well-being. Moreover, we are likely to create mess in other people’s life by letting them know what they are not supposed to know.
Ignorance is a blessing- and when it comes to other people’s personal secrets, dark realities, conflicted pasts, intimate desires and cynical ideas, it is a surpassing one.
In other words, I would never want to acquire the curse of being able to listen to others thoughts.
Now, comes the question, as posed by Hive Learner’s prompt how would I feel if I figure out that I was ignorant about my partner's ability to read my mind since the beginning of the relationship. I would experience a mixed feelings- anger and gratitude, simultaneously.
I would be grateful to him for accepting me with all my faults and aggressive thoughts. On the other hand, I would be angry for ignoring my needs, concerns and desires several times despite having their knowledge.
These feelings are going to be for the time that has already passed. For the future, I would be uncomfortable. In his presence, I would continuously be struggling to not think something undesirable. It is going to be cumbersome as we think more about something that we want not to think.
Such a struggle is going to drag the peace of mind away, isn’t it? But wait .....
If he accepted me for whatever I had been thinking in the past, I don’t think the rejection would come in the future either. So the relationship would continue.
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