I am at Chicago's O'hare airport. My flight has been delayed by a couple of hours or so. I am sitting with my starbucks mocha frappuccino and I am doing what I am best at - observing people and thinking!
At the moment, my eyes are fixed at this couple sitting right across me. The guy is reading something on his Amazon Kindle and the girl is continuously talking. She obviously is talking to him, because there is no one else around them. The guy however, has not made any eye contact so far. If you have ever been in a relationship, it should not take you more than a second to read this guy's mind. I am just waiting for him to turn around and say - "Stop Nagging woman...Let me read!"
As I look at this couple and many others around me, I wonder, why do people nag? Unfortunately, only the fairer sex is associated with the term nagging. But I would like to think otherwise. I think it is one of the most natural phenomena experienced by both men and women. It has all to do with one's upbringing. It's about what one has seen around him as a child and what he has learned during his formative years. A child perceives the world and the relationships through his parents eyes, so for him, that's the only yardstick of how things should be. So if the child sees any deviation from the set of fixed notions that he has, it leads him to question or as we may call it - nag the other person.
As I end this post, with one half of my brain counting the number of times I must have nagged at him, the other half makes a list of things that I need to pester him for :)
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Never had thought tht ppl arnd us hav Hawk eyes and they observe the behaviour of other ppl in the crowd so minutely..interesting...!
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