Intellectually exhausted

Intellectual; academic, scholar, scholarly, thinker, logical, rational, cerebral, brain

Exhausted; tired, worn out, beat, bushed, pooped, dog tired, done in, fatigued, sapped

Combine the two together and you get what I am. Brain sapped. Cerebral fatigued. Rationally done in.

Either there is something wrong with me, or there is something wrong with them. We both cannot be okay. True story.

Have you ever met a person who drains you? Totally completely and exhaustively drains you.

The one who, if you have a meeting with them first thing in the morning you cannot sleep that night. The one who startles you awake in the middle of the night, the duvet is off and your feet tangled in the under sheet? The one who gets you talking to yourself in the shower as you plead with providence? The one who gives you the “morning straight from the shower sweat” that has your deo sliding off as you roll it on?

And you know deep down inside of you – your gota see them. Face to face. You gota meet them. You gota talk to them. You gota listen to them. Nothing good will come of this day. Your minds in a gyro spin – recovery will happen twenty-four hours from now. Residual tremors for another forty-eight.

I know a person like that. I think of them – my energy finishes. From full tank to below empty – gone in sixty seconds.

He never ever ever EVER understands anything. Never. EVER.

An intellectual aneurysm waiting to occur. Crap filled balloon like bulge in the middle of my thought process. Increasing in size. Rapture is eminent! Fatal. Fatal. Fatal person. Kind of person where you beg the boss to transfer you to where the Kenya defence forces do their secret exercises.

Never ever responds to anything – and if they do, the response makes no sense. Never. Ever. EVER. Did I say ever? No sense. Non sense.

Gone case. Lost case. Finished. The village idiot would be a better deal – for what you see is what you get. Tom Hanks gets superior responses from Wilson in Castaway compared to this person. Rational though, logic does not apply.

You cannot understand what they say. They say it over and over again.

They do not understand what you say. They ask the same question over and over again.

Once in a meeting - I explained the difference between two words, and thus two processes. Later – I received a query over email. I google’d-it and sent a response. Day three – a phone call. “Please explain to me again the difference between this and that.” I put the phone down.

Serial conversations. We discuss each the issue over and over again. At the end of the discussion the person is “with it”. Tomorrow we being the same discussion like yesterday’s conversation never happened. 50 first dates – in real life? In the office. Really? What’s in it for me?

I watched a movie long ago – or was it a television series? Screaming woman. I remember her piercing shrill elongated scream as she ran down the road, clothes flapping, hands raised, mouth open beyond human buccal ability! That is what I should do when I meet this kind of person.

Too tired to scream? “Just smile and wave” like the penguins in Madagascar, and hope the person forgot you between yesterday and today.

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