Speak Out Your Thougts
January 23rd, 2007 by Mikael
Inspired by Nadja’s post Smiling Is A Benign Virus I came to think of a conversation I was having the other day with the great and inspiring Danish musician and artist Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen a.k.a. Jomi Massage.
She told me she had started to live out a mantra from one of her lyrics saying - “speak out your thougts!” - this meaning that she would express her thoughts while walking the streets.
Passing a guy with a beautiful bicycle she would tell him - “what a cool bike you have” - instead of just thinking and quietly move on. And the biker would smile and say “Thank you”.
“What a nice haircut”, “That’s a funny looking dog you have”, “Why are you smiling?”…
We experience and think a lot while walking the streets and these simple thoughts can open great conversations - if we dare to speak them out…! Something that happens close never in the streets Copenhagen for some reason.
It’s very basic, it’s very simple - but somehow people find it extremely hard.
I hope Signe is starting a wave that wil spread through the streets of Copenhagen and the rest of the world.
Interaction between strangers makes the world go around!
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Very simple and basic, indeed but nevertheless important.
To give genuine compliments seems to be hard for some people, and I’ve always wondered why.
What is there to loose by giving someone else a compliment? Absolutely nothing.
Thinking down semi-monetary lines, one could even, with the Beatles, state that “in the end, the love you take
is equal to the love you make” (The End on Abbey Road), as if love was an item of trade and exchange. However, I do believe there’s a whole lot of synergy involved: by giving and initiating interaction, you get much, much more back.