Ever heard of Restless Lip Syndrome? Well this is a person who keeps interrupting a conversation and cannot stop talking about herself. I didn't know they have a term for such characters. Just learned it from Urban Dictionary the other day. LOL! Urban jungle that we're in and the urban terms that I'm learning every day.
Anyway, these are people who are full of themselves and inadvertently always seem to divert attention to themselves. I think most of us have friends like this. They're not your regular attention seekers but also attention divert-ers. Cos once they come into the midst of your conversation, most if not all the attention will divert to them. And very often because their skills are so well honed after so many years at it, you don't realize it until a little late.
So how do they divert attention? It's either through great story telling skills... stories by them usually contain the extremes of both ends which will captivate your imagination. Or they'll be great jokers... there are always some good jokes from them which will have you in stitches. Or through the tugging at the strings of your heart. Sometimes they portray a picture of total helplessness. You see we are created with this capacity for good works... so when we see a soul in need, it's an automatic response to offer assistance. And for the males, there is nothing like getting a good dose of this 'I'm the knight in shining armor" feeling from such 'damsels' in distress. Whatever the point, these are the centre stage occupiers, the spotlight 'hog-gers'. Restless lips.... they are!
Their interest in their friends last as long as how their friends can entertain their restless lips. Like everyone else, I've had my share of such 'friends'. Fun as they may be, I've found them to be quite undependable as friends and definitely dispensible. They're mostly good for the hee-hee-ha-ha times... you know, the sort of friends which fits the "laugh and the whole world laughs with you..." adage.
But I supposed if one could look beyond, then one perhaps might see that they too need to be pitied for the way they 'corner' themselves in the end... Restless Lips Syndrome, chic term!
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I've come across many restless lips too Amelia, esp at the school canteen during breakfast. 'My daughter', 'my husband', 'my cat', 'my mother-in-law'.....and so on and so forth and such like, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. You get the drift. Breakfast table has become a place for restless lips to convene.
Well.. that sort of Restless Lips quite harmless-lah. They become restless cos if they are not... what is there for them to be restless about??? Sometimes their lips become restless because their world become constricted... sometimes they become restless because they are full of themselves. It's the latter that I'm wary of.
well, if they ar good entertainers, then why not let them be? better to have such people around in a party...
but i agree, you will have to remember who the real friends are...
me think they should work for BBC, CNN or Aljeera of sort..heh..heh..or else the world will be pretty newsless.
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