Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Writing’s a funny thing. Despite the fact there are invariably a number of aspects that readers may respond to in a given piece, sometimes, one resonates more than others.

This Sunday’s TToT was no exception. There appears a consensus regarding our assertion that, making the effort to see the world through the eyes of the other person, is a worthy ambition.

I suspect there’s the lesson, for those of us who would try to offer a glimpse of our personal reality, aka writing, everything matters. The things we enjoy the most, we expect to have superior hold on the reader’s attentions.

As luck would have it, later in the day yesterday, I had a conversation with Phyllis about this week’s, ‘Reader Favorite Grat Item, Coming in at number 1 with a bullet! Number Four, the Everything Rule!!’

What underlies ‘the Everything Rule’, and is a constant challenge to me to convey in writing, is, How real the personal realities of the Wakefield Doctrine are.*

We all talk about others, especially those who are not in complete agreement with us; usually couched in phrases such as, ‘…they insist on believing‘ or ‘…they’re otherwise quite intelligent, except on this one matter‘ or even, ‘...how can you believe that?!’

In the Wakefield Doctrine, we allow that, living in a personal reality that is not an exact duplicate of our own, things might be different. The Doctrine takes the position that we all have the same goal; trying to get through life the best we can, following the path we have acquired up until the current moment.

This brings us to the Everything Rule. The Rule reminds us to consider an event/occurrence, an acceptance/a rejection, protestations of innocence/a profession of undying love with an awareness of the state of reality the other person is most likely experiencing.

If we do this, make an effort to see the world as the other person is experiencing it, we will spare ourselves the outrage/misinterpretation//the gut-punch of disappointment that is all too often our reaction when people in our lives do not act as we expect them to/want them to/hoped they would.

Because the Wakefield Doctrine is about you, not them. And this is not all, ‘me me me’ self-centeredness. Its just that the Wakefield Doctrine promises only to help us with one thing, ‘to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. (As always, we repeat: we do not say, ‘how we relate to the world’, we say, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. Huge dif.)

Thanks for stopping by and voting for the Wakefield Doctrine as ‘The-bestest-personality-theory-that-only-a-small-percentage-of-the-population-will-have-fun-with,-even-though-them-others-would-surely-get-something-from, if’n-they’d-lighten-up-a-bit-and-utilize-the-gift-of-perspective-a-touch-more’.

music vid? of course!

from our current favorites, the cast (and writers) of ‘the Magicians’ who do the impossible and make light ‘n airy 1980s pop music enjoyable.

* New Readers: a fundamental condition to the structure of the Wakefield Doctrine is that reality is, to a small but certain degree, personal. Nothing weird, like figuring out how to fly** or walking down the street in a downpour without getting wet. At the intersection of ‘the world and me’ there is a tiny, little gap. Better yet, there is a room. (yeah, way wide but not very deep, lol), that we have the option to decorate, to paint the walls, if you will. That is personal reality)

** god! to have a tenth of the talent of Douglas Addams as evidenced in his answer to the age-old question of how man might learn to fly…lol