How awake is you inner noise ninja ? - I think mine is constantly present and very trained in separating noise from “marketing”.

There’s a lot of noise to go around these days - from newsletters and snailmails ( that you can’t seem to unsubscribe from) to phone calls from newspaper sellers, to facers on the street (or followers as I would call them these days - because nomatter how uncomfortable it is to you - they literally walk with you to convince you to support their NGO).

Actually this is a problem for me. And what resulted in an inner noise ninja attack from my side. A noise ninja attack is happening inside of me when I am exposed to too much noise.

it’s when a “salesperson” though I politely say “no - I don’t want to buy your product” - keeps on pushing and pushing.

so here’s the story:

I like NGO’s because they are (most of the time) made to do good. I am supporting a great deal of them - and has also been volunteering in many NGO’s to make a difference (mainly because - deep down I really want to save the world).

the other day a Unicef facer ( or follower) chatted me up on the street and kept talking, even though I told him that I allready supported various NGO’s and that I wasn’t interested. But he didn’t seem to get the message. He asked me ” why not support another one” - and I politely told him that it was my own business whom I supported and it was my own choice what I was to do with my money.

After 50 meters I felt cornered - and my inner noise ninja started kicking and fighting to get out of me.

It resulted in the sudden outburst; “if you don’t stop following me around I swear I will never support Unicef again”.

I would never have said that myself - but being exposed too much noise - I guess no one can tell how they would react being cornered.

KIIIYAAAH!

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