Much ado about.... Something

So last week instead of listening to the Librivox, I listened to the BYU library's audio play version of "Much Ado About Nothing." I loved it! There were real actors and they also had background music/ sound effects that put you in the scene. Even though it was hard sometimes to understand their words because of their British accents, it was BRILLIANT! The actors were actually reacting while the other were talking, like you do in real life, and you could hear it on the recording. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BYU RECORDINGS!!

Something that I posted about a few posts back was about men's attitude. It think Much Ado has another nugget of gold when it comes to the this area of psychological mindset. Men tend to over analyze any situation. ESPECIALLY when it involves a girl. I don't get it. Benedick is so smart at the beginning I feel. He knows he doesn't want Beatrice, but then as soon as he thinks that she likes him, it's like Beatrice's whole personality suddenly changed from this

to this.

When in reality, the only thing that has changed is Benedick's perception of her. Seriously this next monologue is right after Benedick overhears that Beatrice supposedly likes him and then she comes to fetch him for dinner because she's told to by her uncle.

Benedick
Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not
love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.

Seriously! just seconds before this he was saying how he wanted nothing to do with her. I can't believe he's gullible. But there's something else at work here.

The dude totally over thinks the whole thing! He finds a deeper meaning when there isn't one because he makes one for himself to tell him that he's right. I've seen this done many times before.

I admit, I am a man. (did you know???) I have done some of these same things, but none quite so bad as some of the people I love dearly and will leave nameless just in case they ever read this blog. yeah.... seriously.... I hope he never reads this........ :/

But the thing is, we men don't just over think things when it comes to women, we over think competition too. We start to overcompensate in some areas of competition so that we feel sure that we're going to win just in case some other guys does what we've anticipated. (no I'm not talking about guys who drive trucks) More often than not, nobody is going to make our anticipations come to life, unless we tell other people about it. It's like if you joke about somebody turning on an alliance in the game RISK.


We joke because we're afraid it's going to happen, but then some other guy gets the idea ONLY BECAUSE YOU SAID IT and actually does it. Self fulfilling prophecy. huh, that sounds like a lot of things in life actually.