Selective Listening

It's a rare skill I have.

I listen carefully for the things I wanted to hear, and I pretend not to have heard the rest. This straining off of the elements that don't suit my view of the world works really well.

For a while.

Problem is, I did hear the other stuff too. And after a while, it has grown legs and walked itself out of the far reaches of filed-under-lost and is coming in on the fringes. Later of course it will be shouting loudly in the foreground, but I'll barely hear it for the booming of I Told You So.

I've been doing this at the moment. So I'm going to try an experiment in taking responsibility. This will be hard, but character-building.

I am going to acknowledge all the important things I'm pretending not to have heard, and I'm going to put them into a draft blog post, which will capture the date. This will mean that later, when I'm wishing I had taken on board these things, and not the other things, I'll be able to say I Told You So properly, and with absolute authority.