"I don't know."
What a simple conclusion, isn't it? It isn't in need of any supporting comments to prove how you came to that conclusion. It just simply states that you have no idea in that matter. It's a conclusion I don't try to avoid in a normal conversation, discussion or just plain out of the blue. In a serious discussion however, you'll rarely hear me say those words.
Out of experience, I learned that a few specific (forgein) friends of mine think the same way as me in this kind of situation. But it remains hard to get me serious enough to actually avoid a specific conclusion. We have been discussing about one single particular subject that I brought up. Though it is a simple question for someone who is not willing, or able to become serious in the matter, it is a hard question that forces the mind to work for a certain answer.
Whatever it was that made us think about it, it was enough to get me completely serious; something that I haven't been for years now because of a mere fictional subject.
"Imagine this. The younger sister of your best friend falls in love with you and you are pretty fond of her yourself. Yet your best friend, her older brother, tries everything to keep the two of you from getting together. What would you do in this situation?"
The question is simple and the many possible answers are not hard to think of. Yet it is a question that got the mind of two of my friends and myself in a serious state to discuss such a situation. For once, we constantly came to the conclusion of, "I don't know." In theory, the situation is very easy to solve, but how would the body function while under a pressure that much? We calculated the limits of our own body as far as we are familiar with it and still tried to think what we would do in our situation. No matter how we looked at the situation, we kept walking into a dead-end that would eventually leave (at least) one out of the three unhappy.
I opened this discussion with someone else today as well, who immediately asked if I was related to that situation. A question that might pop up by people here as well. Rest assured, it is fictional; I am not related to this, nor is anyone that I am familiar with.
How do you people think of it?
What a simple conclusion, isn't it? It isn't in need of any supporting comments to prove how you came to that conclusion. It just simply states that you have no idea in that matter. It's a conclusion I don't try to avoid in a normal conversation, discussion or just plain out of the blue. In a serious discussion however, you'll rarely hear me say those words.
Out of experience, I learned that a few specific (forgein) friends of mine think the same way as me in this kind of situation. But it remains hard to get me serious enough to actually avoid a specific conclusion. We have been discussing about one single particular subject that I brought up. Though it is a simple question for someone who is not willing, or able to become serious in the matter, it is a hard question that forces the mind to work for a certain answer.
Whatever it was that made us think about it, it was enough to get me completely serious; something that I haven't been for years now because of a mere fictional subject.
"Imagine this. The younger sister of your best friend falls in love with you and you are pretty fond of her yourself. Yet your best friend, her older brother, tries everything to keep the two of you from getting together. What would you do in this situation?"
The question is simple and the many possible answers are not hard to think of. Yet it is a question that got the mind of two of my friends and myself in a serious state to discuss such a situation. For once, we constantly came to the conclusion of, "I don't know." In theory, the situation is very easy to solve, but how would the body function while under a pressure that much? We calculated the limits of our own body as far as we are familiar with it and still tried to think what we would do in our situation. No matter how we looked at the situation, we kept walking into a dead-end that would eventually leave (at least) one out of the three unhappy.
I opened this discussion with someone else today as well, who immediately asked if I was related to that situation. A question that might pop up by people here as well. Rest assured, it is fictional; I am not related to this, nor is anyone that I am familiar with.
How do you people think of it?
