FabSwingers.com forum: Was Maya Angelou Misguided.

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The poet and playwright Maya Angelou is quoted as saying,

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

I don't agree. I think we remember what people said and did to make us feel certain ways. Or is it over time the memories of specifics fade and disappear and only the memory of the feeling remain.

Was she misguided or accurate?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The poet and playwright Maya Angelou is quoted as saying,

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

I don't agree. I think we remember what people said and did to make us feel certain ways. Or is it over time the memories of specifics fade and disappear and only the memory of the feeling remain.

Was she misguided or accurate? "

Accurate.

So many things are misquoted, so people definitely forget words. And eye witness testimonies of events are actually quite unreliable. So our recollections of an event can also be questioned.

But you can't really question or argue with someone's emotional response to an event or interaction with another person. You feel what you feel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

She was a Phenomenal Woman!

Accurate, time changes many things but feelings always remain...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The poet and playwright Maya Angelou is quoted as saying,

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

I don't agree. I think we remember what people said and did to make us feel certain ways. Or is it over time the memories of specifics fade and disappear and only the memory of the feeling remain.

Was she misguided or accurate?

Accurate.

So many things are misquoted, so people definitely forget words. And eye witness testimonies of events are actually quite unreliable. So our recollections of an event can also be questioned.

But you can't really question or argue with someone's emotional response to an event or interaction with another person. You feel what you feel."

This is so spot on too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The poet and playwright Maya Angelou is quoted as saying,

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

I don't agree. I think we remember what people said and did to make us feel certain ways. Or is it over time the memories of specifics fade and disappear and only the memory of the feeling remain.

Was she misguided or accurate?

Accurate.

So many things are misquoted, so people definitely forget words. And eye witness testimonies of events are actually quite unreliable. So our recollections of an event can also be questioned.

But you can't really question or argue with someone's emotional response to an event or interaction with another person. You feel what you feel.

This is so spot on too

I agree that feelings will always remain prominent, you will walk by a place that will flood you with feelings, a movie a certain food. These all trigger feelings and memories. The feelings never go away and are key the way we are.

She was spot on in my opinion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

WOW

We are all so philosophical this morning.

Here is me trying to write a paper for an under graduate course on counselling and psychology and I come in here for some easy laid back feelings and read this thread

I'll slope back to my essay

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"WOW

We are all so philosophical this morning.

Here is me trying to write a paper for an under graduate course on counselling and psychology and I come in here for some easy laid back feelings and read this thread

I'll slope back to my essay"

FAF?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Accurate.

Words are cheap.

Those moments when someone make you feel good or bad mean so much more and tell us more truths.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Accurate.

Words are cheap.

Those moments when someone make you feel good or bad mean so much more and tell us more truths. "

But isn't that feeling and memory then attached to something that they have done, rendering the quote inaccurate?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Accurate.

Words are cheap.

Those moments when someone make you feel good or bad mean so much more and tell us more truths.

But isn't that feeling and memory then attached to something that they have done, rendering the quote inaccurate?

It's not inaccurate if you don't remember the specifics of their words or actions but do remember how you felt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Accurate.

Words are cheap.

Those moments when someone make you feel good or bad mean so much more and tell us more truths.

But isn't that feeling and memory then attached to something that they have done, rendering the quote inaccurate?

Words and actions can be changed in our memories, usually in order for us to process them. However we remember how we felt far more accurately

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By *ail_forceTV/TS
over a year ago

Dundee

"The poet and playwright Maya Angelou is quoted as saying,

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

I don't agree. I think we remember what people said and did to make us feel certain ways. Or is it over time the memories of specifics fade and disappear and only the memory of the feeling remain.

Was she misguided or accurate? "

Never cease to be amazed at the topics on fab forums lol x

What they say affects your feelings, and your feelings about what they said affect your memory of what they said.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thank you. All interesting and thought provoking contributions.

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