‘Social’ Intelligence: He Said She Said You Said I Said; Is It True!?

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Today was a very special day for me in that I found out that I had recently been involved in activities that I had never even thought of before.

In fact, I was so pleasantly surprised my new- found self that I bought it a drink before I sent it home.

It would seem, for instance, that I had, at some point last week, applied to study a Master’s degree in Law in Melbourne, Australia. I was actually quite happy to find that out as I had always wanted to go to Australia but had never had the time and money to do so.

Now, however, it’d seem that I had also won a scholarship in the said university which would also cover my living expenses.

‘How awesome of me!’, I thought. ‘I must’ve worked really hard to do that!’

A friend of mine was, however, quite concerned by my firm decision to go to Australia because if I was to do, he said, I wouldn’t have been to go on a third date with that remarkable girl that he’d heard so much about.

‘So far, so good’, I thought. ‘A fully funded LLM in Australia AND a remarkable potential girlfriend’.

And I didn’t even lift a finger!

As I was thinking about what clothes to pack for Melbourne, another friend of mine asked me whether I’d include my trip to Australia in that book that I was going to publish.

He then went on to give me some advice on what the cover should look like and what the contents of the book should be if I wanted it to really ‘sell, sell, sell!’.

Naturally, I took detailed notes of everything he said and turned to yet another friend who was looking at me in a curiously enquiring manner.

When I asked her whether everything was alright, she looked me in the eye and asked me whether I thought that it was a good idea to go to Australia with this arachnophobia that I had developed when I was little.

She also wanted to know what my grandparents thought about my going away as, apparently, they didn’t let me go to Hong Kong when I found a job there some two years ago.

As you might probably appreciate, all of the above was news to me. It seemed as thought I had been living another life without even realising it for quite some time.

I couldn’t, naturally, doubt or question any of the things that my friends told me .

After all, they said he said she said I said all of those at one point.

Ah, yes...

You couldn’t argue with that...