Funnily enough, I too have worked with someone who had ‘the glow’. He was the manager of an area I worked in for a couple of years, and he had a witty story and a charming smile suitable for every occasion.
I’ve never met anyone else who, for example, could tell you that you were fired and you’d still feel oddly grateful that he’d taken the time to tell you himself. As though, you know, you mattered - even though, yes, you’d just watched your career get metaphorically dragged into a dark alley for the purposes of having the living shit kicked out of it.
I guess it’s called charisma; although that really is a guess, as I’ve never had any of it to speak of.
The closest I’ve ever been able to get to having charisma is having ‘personality’, which isn’t the same thing. Personality I have lots of - however, if I tell you that you’ve been fired, I just know I’m going to get punched in the head, because not only do I have a lot of personality, but also most of it happens to be really annoying [1].
Oh, and in relation to this:
His name was and is ‘The Professor’. I kinda like him but I hate myself for it. I’m not alone in this. I feel the same about Murray @ Midnight but that’s for another time, this is the time to share the legend of the ‘knowledge-glow’.
Aha ahahahaha. Well played, Mister Saturday. This round goes to you.
Bastard.
| 1. | Like that guy you sat next to at some dinner party who, whenever he laughed, made this, “hnuff hnuff hnuff” noise. Probably a lovely guy, but that laugh just made you want to strangle him to death with your shoelaces, seriously it did. |
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