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TheMule73
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#19033690 - 10/25/13 11:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Does anyone else feel the same?
Edited by TheMule73 (11/24/13 08:51 PM)
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akira_akuma
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Does anyone else feel the same?
yep.
i only have a few good friends, some of which i rarely ever see anymore, after high school.
people are overrated. i like having a few people in my life, and that's it. hence, why i like the internet. people, but not people.
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TheMule73
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akira_akuma said:
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Does anyone else feel the same?
yep.
i like having a few people in my life, and that's it. hence, why i like the internet. people, but not people.
This made me smile. Very true.
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akira_akuma
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and believe me, it's not like i wanna denounce people or anything, by saying they're overrated. i just think... people expect too much out of other people, in general and then because of that, they think they're owed something by another person, that they're not... such as a persona to help them out.
like they're the center of the fucking universe.
it's kinda true. but i don't embrace this concept as being totally defining of my humanity. i need people, but i need myself to be true more then anything else.
otherwise, i'm just feeding the problem of people expecting the pearl in the oyster shell everytime they think they're "doing good"; as if the notion of "goodness" fits the same way into the paradigm of humanities self-seeking wisdom of "goodness". i call it ignorance.
Truth is more important. truth has no aim, no purpose, other then what it's supposed to should do. first and forthmost.
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I feel the same way. I have a good relationship with my family but even popping in once a week for a few hours sometimes seems like a lot. I only have 4 friends and 2 of them I only see once every month or two. Seems like more often than not the people I meet thrive on conflict amongst each other and interpersonal battles, and are all too eager to invite me into it.
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TheMule73
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To both posts: exactly
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I'm similar. I don't need people, but a few people need me and I accept that, just as they accept me for the way I am. It was rough at first and I had to work through a lot of guilt and drop a lot of relationships over the years, but now I keep in contact with a few family members intermittently with no pressure on me to talk to them or see them at any particular rate, which seems to be the only way I can maintain any type of relationship (besides with my wife of course). Don't feel bad. I went through lots of guilt but I realized I need to accept myself for who I am, and it's really not my fault if I don't enjoy the company of others. If they respect you, they'll accept you for who you are as well. And if they don't, fuck em! Like you said, you don't feel like what you're working towards is very appealing, let alone worth all the effort, so if you have to drop some people to get to where you want to be, don't feel bad about it. The least they can do for all your efforts to appease their need for a relationship with you is accept the terms of the relationship that you give them. The people I stayed in contact with are the ones who respected that. The rest weren't worth it, simple as that.
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akira_akuma
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though, sometimes, the notion is more fun. but it's a cause i'm willing to partake in, because i really really don't get what the big fuss is about when it comes to the more sociologically attuned. they just do lots and lots of dumb shit, in my opinion, to help color in a nice shiny personality, so that people will trust them; but then do nothing to earn that trust, and then you're left with people with nothing to show for their "good deeds" and their social status but bills, a car, a house, a spouse, and some tidbits of joy sprinkled through their emotional deadened life of cycling work, school, travel, buying, and maybe the odd bit of togetherness, tossed in with some social commentary to help improve the situation with your kids and spouse and co-workers and among strangers... and all because people can't just find a reason to actually live for the people they say they love.
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