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Agree. People are in it for themselves. Most pretend to like you, then blow you off when push comes to shove. If I had a dollar for when they told me, "I'm too busy" to do this or that, I'd be a millionaire. I started hating people when my Dad ditched me, and it was all downhill from there. This post is not self-pity; it's just realism.
Wow. What an impoverished bunch these posters are.
Not necessarily, many people like myself simply enjoy our own company more than the company of others. That doesn't make us impoverished.
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If knowing and talking to people doesn't lift your spirits, then what does? Tv?(people) Phone?(people) Internet?(people) City Data? (PEOPLE)
don't let the few tarnish the whole. Everything and everyone has a "silver lining". Ya just gotta look deeper sometimes.
Art, music, nature, a select few friends or family with a deeper connection?
I work with the public, some of those silver linings must be buried under layers and layers of tarnish because a lot of what I see is pretty awful. Count yourself lucky if you aren't in a situation to see how terribly a lot people can treat their fellow human beings on a regular basis.
I'm not a people person but I think I go a bit overboard with it.
for example: even people in an online video game can annoy me tremendously. One guy will jump on Diablo 3 the moment he sees I'm online, then join my game and proceed to follow me around as if he wants me to see him. I'll check his character out and he's tried to the best of his ability to make the character look exactly like mine. I never say anything to him--what would you say to something so trivial--but it's irritating.
I get annoyed by strangers in various situations who make it obvious they'd like a conversation or some sort of friendly exchange but have no intention of instigating it. Strangers (male and female) who will go out of their way to sit near you in a completely empty train car and then proceed to do whatever they can to draw your attention. And for what?!?!
I guess I'm saying that no, I am definitely NOT a people person but I realize that some of the things that irritate me are silly. Fortunately I'm not the type to go around glowering at strangers, I just mind my business and put off an indifferent 'I'm not going to hurt you but I don't give a remote damn about you' vibe.
Same here. I got stuck at a party talking to this man who only wanted to talk about his celiac disease and how he can't eat gluten, then went on and on about the foods he could and could not eat. I really don't care about his diet nor do I wish to know so much about it. He was boring and dull and I had to find a way to extricate myself from the conversation.
I'm with you. One of my major turnoffs with people is the lack of compelling conversation material. I HATE when some dude I don't know just assumes I watched whatever idiot game was on last night or some male co worker thinks he's found a new lady-chasing partner on the shift he can swap stories and conquests with.
When I was younger and a bit friendlier I was often the young guy talking to the older gentlemen about Frank Sinatra or The Platters. Not a people person but, naturally, I'm fine with folks I share common interests with who aren't brain dead or illiterate.
i would be totally happy to build a ten foot wall around my property with no gate, and have amazon throw some food over the wall every once in a while. Best thing i ever did in life was to tell my friends, 17 years ago. I dont need you.
i would be totally happy to build a ten foot wall around my property with no gate, and have amazon throw some food over the wall every once in a while. Best thing i ever did in life was to tell my friends, 17 years ago. I dont need you.
Until you get old, frail, and disabled. Learn to forgive and love. You are wasting your existence hating. People are infallible, just like you. So be the change you want to see and make a difference in this world than adding to it's corruption and darkness.
Not necessarily, many people like myself simply enjoy our own company more than the company of others. That doesn't make us impoverished.
Art, music, nature, a select few friends or family with a deeper connection?
Introverts can enjoy people but in small doses. We recharge alone and need that after being around people.
I enjoy family and a few friends but would prefer a root canal to going to large social events.
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