Almost Script

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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Almost ScriptSisyphus was another character to fall foul of the touchy Greek gods. He was condemned to spend eternity pushing a huge rock up a hill. Every time he almost got to the top, he lost his grip on the rock and it rolled all the way down to the bottom again. Like Sisyphus, the modern day person with an Almost script says: “ I almost made it this time.”

Almost ScriptFred borrows a book from

his friend. Giving it back, he

says: “Thanks for the book. I

have read it all except the

last chapter.” When Fred

cleans his car, he gets it

almost clean, except for a

few patches of mud which

he missed.

Almost ScriptLiving his Almost pattern over

the longer term, Fred has

almost been promoted at

work. But though he got near

the boss’s chair, he is not quite

made it in there. Each time he

gets to the short list, and each

time he somehow fails to

perform at the interview.

Almost Script

Berne called this script

pattern “Over and Over”.

However, later writers have

pointed out that all the

patterns are lived over and

over and so the title

“Almost” has been adopted

instead.

Almost Script

Taibi Kahler has suggested

that there are two types of

Almost pattern. He calls the

one we have discussed

“Almost type I”. In his

“Almost type II”, the person

actually does make it to the

top of the hill.

Almost ScriptBut instead of parking his rock and sitting down with a sigh of relief, this person hardly even notices he is got to the top. Without a pause, he looks around for an even higher hill to push the rock up, and off he goes. At the top of that one in turn, he looks around to spy a still higher mountain to tackle.

Almost ScriptThe person with Almost type II

will often be a material high

achiever, Janet, for instance,

sailed through her examinations

in school. She went straight on

to win a scholarship to college.

By the time she graduated with

a first class degree, she had

already decided to begin her

PhD studies.

Almost ScriptNow holding her doctorate, she his working hard for a Fellowship to her learned society. Though the envy of her colleagues, Janet herself does not feel she had made it. Once she is a fellow, she tells he friends, she got her eye on a professorship. Of course, it will mean still more hard work, and she never seem to have time to socialize.

Almost ScriptThere are two different

sentence patterns that signal

the Almost script. The speaker

may start a sentence, then go

off one tangent which he

finishes. “What I am lecturing

to you about today is – oh, by

the way, I have a page of notes

which I will give you.”

Almost ScriptAlternatively, the person with

an Almost script may come out

with a string of positives

followed by a single negative.

“Aren’t the trees lovely in

Autumn? It is really warm, too

and such bring sunshine. Mind

you, the air is cold.”

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