The Deadly Viber

Hello kiddies .Today we shall cover another subject they should teach you in school but don’t, because in order to do well in your studies you must fail at life. We’re going to talk about the eloquently termed, ‘negative vibes’- most popularly felt around certain popular people. Term mostly used when one cannot pinpoint his/her exact reasons for disliking a person. Do these vibes exist? What are these strange social turn-offs that emanate from a person, like the body odor of the personality perhaps? Like BO, dispersing crowds and attracting forced smiles and sudden exits.

We’ve all heard this story before. Someone letting us know that a certain individual gives him/her ‘negative vibes’. At this point most promptly ask for incidences involving behavior displaying nastiness, selfish disregard, and anti-social tendencies. If you’re however greeted by blubbering and responses including words like “weird” or ”not cool” decide to give the alleged negative viber a chance before you hop into the car and agree to egg their house with your friend. Don’t judge a book by the cover OR the reviews at the back. Ha ha see what I did there? Ahem, right, moving along….

Considering the fact that most of us are crabby snot-nosed people for 80% of the time (the other 20% we spend cooing to our pets or stuffed animals. Or pets that became stuffed animals.) and go around snapping, slamming doors, sneering, spitting in someone’s drink etc. is sending out negative vibes an indication of a flawed personality or just of being human and not programmed by one ? Chances are we’re all sending out negative vibes occasionally and hoping no one picks up on them.

Human beings do instinctively recoil from certain people for reasons they can’t explain but are based on their brains reactions to body language, voice modulations (see kids we do sciency stuff too here), slight changes in facial expressions etc. But no ones talking about lending the negative viber your credit card! Just a second chance. If however it backfires and the person turns out to be a creep and you blame this blogger for all of it remember, all you have to do is make the universal sign of bitching (widen eyes, stoop and talk fast) and there’ll be kind folk willing to listen to you vent. --------- Deborah D'souza (blogokplease.blogspot.com)