Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Jerk:
-noun
1.
a quick, sharp pull, thrust, twist, throw, or the like; a sudden movement: The train started with a jerk.
2.
a spasmodic, usually involuntary, muscular movement, as the reflex action of pulling the hand away from a flame.
3.
any sudden, quick movement of the body, as in dodging something.
4.
Slang. a contemptibly naive, fatuous, foolish, or inconsequential person.
5.
(in weightlifting) the raising of a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms.
6.
jerks, British Informal.
physical jerks.
7.
a dance, deriving from the twist, in which the dancers alternately thrust out their pelvises and their shoulders.
8.
the jerks, paroxysms or violent spasmodic muscular movements, as resulting from excitement evoked by some religious services.



A friend asked me today,
"M i a jerk?"

Well, the answer is strictly no. Yea.

I don't know why, but i'm kind of affected by the question in fact.
Many questions were hanging in my mind.
How was he feeling when he asked me that.
Why did he ask me that.
What caused him to make him feel like a jerk.
So many.

Come to think of it,
now it's my turn to wonder..

"Am I a jerk?"



I feel like one.