mixed signals

I want to radically say there’s no such thing. There are signals one can give — for instance, a blinker when you’re about to turn a direction. When you hit the other blinker to turn the other direction, that’s also a signal. Period. Not a mix.

Maybe you’re going one way and then change your mind — heart — or route to go another direction. That’s literally what we humans do. We change our minds. Hearts. Routes. Directions.

We are allowed to say, “Yeah, this works now.”

Then we’re able to decide, almost immediately (and sometimes even at the last second out of fucking nowhere) to say, “Nope, I’m going this other way.” 

That’s not mixing signals. 

That’s simply signaling sentiment. Feelings change. Minds change. Hearts break, flutter, ache, mend and bend. We feel okay, alright, happy and suddenly sad — then ecstatic and elated. 

We are human and by nature we are a mixed bag of emotions. And when we signal our sentiments with another homosapien, we’re being honest, fair and showing up for ourselves to signal where we’re at now — in the moment. 

It isn’t a mixed signal. It’s  a signal to the present person’s need to turn one way or another. It’s a signal to say, “I feel I’m here now.” 

It’s a signal to say, “Sorry, I’m not sorry for showing you I changed my mind. At least I’m putting my blinker on so you are well aware and can protect your own self and slow the F down and not rear end me.”