I Hate My Voice

I was thinking about this on my way home from Zionsville before I almost hit a deer(who knew they didn't hibernate in the winter?). The thought came about due to another thing that I have a problem with (which I think might be related to the first problem). I was listening to a voice memo on my phone when I realized that I can't stand the sound of my own voice. It causes me to wonder how other people could ever respect what I am saying(assuming that they do).

I mean, if I was listening to somebody else who sounded like that voice on the phone, I would probably tune him out, or at least miss some of what he was saying because I was thinking about how annoying I find his voice. I also wondered if alot of people have this same affliction (not GOB, and this is really who I first thought of, so maybe I have a problem with my attachment to TV characters). I contemplated that my own personal hell (if I believed in such a thing) would probably be watching myself do embarrassing things, while listening to me doing a narration of such events. It also made me wonder how embarrassing it would be if people could hear your inner monologue, then I thought of Austin Powers and realized I wouldn't be able to take a funnier angle, so I let that thought go.

My second problem(alluded to earlier) is that I quite often forget when I make a mental note to myself to do something. In fact, as I was raiding the pantry at home I made 2 notes. 1) Don't forget to take Mellencamp's guitar out of the trunk and 2) Don't forget to take this food with you when you leave. So naturally, 15 minutes on my way back to the condo, I realize that I don't have any food with me, but I do have a guitar in the trunk. This is a common problem for me(forgetting, not having guitars in the trunk). I was actually leaving the voice memo because I had thought of something important for my paper, but I knew I would forget it if I did not record it in some form. So after listening to the sound of my voice (as noted above) I wondered if my own disdain for my voice caused my brain to tune out my notes to self. Wouldn't that be fucked up?

MORAL: I have no goldfish now...suck.

PS: If you don't like all of the parentheses(suck it).



Coming Soon: Things I learned in College(Not Engineering, those secrets aren't for the weak)