Into Deep

 How are you to respond to certain figure of speech? 

I have a brilliant friend/classmate who is highly intelligent, so brilliant and love to use figure of speech in her many statements. Sometimes I get that blank face or facial expression of being flabbergasted as who is she talking with? What the hell she is trying to impress with such lavish, pompous amount of demonic words? lol. I can understand some low grade sentences, statements or below the belt words too.

It's not that I cannot understand her language but me being bilingual having to sort out whether she is trying to outsmart, compete, or she's being gibberish, rude or somewhat being provocative and her statements or rather ordinary conversation becomes a competition of rockets being fired to heaven.

I am not in a lecture/forum symposium or in a conference with superbly high intellectuals and I will for sure compete with her in manner that we can be comfortable with, however if it's just a plain chat and why we have to punish ourselves with all the high falutin language. If she wants a super position, stereoscopic perception of all about everything would be happy with that. But why, be that impersonal? Why not we all yell and sing "Yellow" at each other and be ourselves because nobody will take check on our grammar, or is there? Are we being watched, recorded or we are being checked on our grammar and should be perfect and the words we used count in every possible way that each word has a point as in the game of scrabble. Yup, that boggles my mind. Maybe it was scrabble the name of the game. Board game. Into deep. In depth analysis.

Have you ever listen to newscasters on TV? Do we ever heard those newscasters using high standard words or any word from your thesaurus? NO. They only speak or talk in the language that majority of humans can understand in ENGLISH. You want the use of second language in French and extra sign language for those who are hearing impaired? Then that's the reason why you get extra fee for TV Connection. For the vision impaired? Why not settle for radio? Or you can still watch TV and just listen not all blinds are hearing impaired. No one's hearing impaired in my home. No one's vision impaired either. Selective hearing seems the conflict. We only listen to what our ears want to hear. It's better that way or negativity sets in and you get the long rigid explanation and reasons why and it will be never ending story.

By the way, I am thankful for having friends who are highly intelligent for you can benefit from their ideas and why not you are friend with them it's because it's the same thing... friends with benefit.  Both of you benefit from such interaction, social friendship, there's nothing that harm anybody if both parties have that give and take relationship and it should be just even. Fair & just.