Giving Up
Hm. I went to the counselor yesterday and we talked about how I've given up over the years. She told me she deals with a lot of people who over-perform in life to please people but I'm doing the opposite. I'm pushing people away at such a rate because I've given up now on friendship
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Excuse my creepiness...but seriously, I've had the exact same experience as you when it comes to one-sided friendships. Well, pretty much my entire collection of friends at this point, I suppose. But we can't keep blaming ourselves. I like to look at it as not having had a chance to meet a whole lot of people in life. There's nothing wrong with you nor me, it's just the quality of people we had happened to be surrounded by. Orrrr it could be the inverse and that we're both weird, but others are not weird enough for us. But my point still stands.
I agree with the other commenter: take pride in the stuff you love, and just be you! I know it's easier said than done...I struggle with 'being myself' everyday, and it's so much harder for me because I have so few interests and I'm still stuck in the late 1990's when it comes to pop culture lol...but not without some hope that there is somebody out there who is as backwards and stupid as I am and whom I can form some kind of bond with. Because there is always that tiny, tiny margin, that at least there is one friend out of seven billion people in the world who will listen.
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It is hard when you're that person. But I'm glad you have a good attitude about it!
And sometimes I wonder if there is someone else out there who will listen. There may be 7 billion people on earth, but our cultures all separate us into basically smaller groups. Then when you filter your interests, it gets smaller. Then you're stuck sitting there quietly wondering... *sighs*
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