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For a long time I've always had a problem of taking people too seriously. Its not that I can't take a joke or that I don't have a sense of humor, it just has to be very clear to me when someone is joking.
I am very bad at understanding practical jokes. I can't comprehend why someone would play a trick on someone, I always feel that there's something deeper that spurs that. You are made a fool of and it doesn't feel good. I think deep emotions shouldn't be toyed around with by some highly involved and complicated joke. Its stupid, aggravating, and humiliating.
I remember one time a long while ago I made a slightly off-color joke and a girl pretended to cry. I immediately thought it was a trick, but she kept at it. Her friend told me that I had really hurt her and that I should make a sincere apology. I repeatedly asked her to promise me the truth and she said it was so. It wasn't even that bad of a joke I made, but you never know girls. So I was feeling so hurt and so bad for making this girl sob that I made a really sincere apology, only to get several loud laughs in my face. Lame. I didn't feel that I fell for it, I felt like I really tried to find out the truth, was lied to, and then laughed at.
A lot of people like to retaliate after a practical joke; I'm not one of those people. I take it too seriously, I remember how I feel and I wouldn't want anyone else to feel like that. I just wag my finger and feel bitterly disappointed until I am made an apology. I'm not a very fun person when it comes to jokes like that.
Little, unemotional, short-lasting practical jokes can be really fun and it'd be hard to become significantly upset at someone telling you your shoe is untied only to get a finger flick on the nose.
So my deal is that I am always looking for the truth and for the inner person. I like to collect interesting tid-bits about people and remember their makeup. I like to test their personality against what I have I come to assume about it. I almost always believe that what people tell me is the truth. If it isn't the truth, then I want to understand why. I have come to figure out though that sometimes people just lie. They lie because they have some sort of incurable disease and they themselves don't understand why they aren't telling the truth. The truth is something ugly, their character is complicated, they don't want to be understood.
I am very bad at understanding practical jokes. I can't comprehend why someone would play a trick on someone, I always feel that there's something deeper that spurs that. You are made a fool of and it doesn't feel good. I think deep emotions shouldn't be toyed around with by some highly involved and complicated joke. Its stupid, aggravating, and humiliating.
I remember one time a long while ago I made a slightly off-color joke and a girl pretended to cry. I immediately thought it was a trick, but she kept at it. Her friend told me that I had really hurt her and that I should make a sincere apology. I repeatedly asked her to promise me the truth and she said it was so. It wasn't even that bad of a joke I made, but you never know girls. So I was feeling so hurt and so bad for making this girl sob that I made a really sincere apology, only to get several loud laughs in my face. Lame. I didn't feel that I fell for it, I felt like I really tried to find out the truth, was lied to, and then laughed at.
A lot of people like to retaliate after a practical joke; I'm not one of those people. I take it too seriously, I remember how I feel and I wouldn't want anyone else to feel like that. I just wag my finger and feel bitterly disappointed until I am made an apology. I'm not a very fun person when it comes to jokes like that.
Little, unemotional, short-lasting practical jokes can be really fun and it'd be hard to become significantly upset at someone telling you your shoe is untied only to get a finger flick on the nose.
So my deal is that I am always looking for the truth and for the inner person. I like to collect interesting tid-bits about people and remember their makeup. I like to test their personality against what I have I come to assume about it. I almost always believe that what people tell me is the truth. If it isn't the truth, then I want to understand why. I have come to figure out though that sometimes people just lie. They lie because they have some sort of incurable disease and they themselves don't understand why they aren't telling the truth. The truth is something ugly, their character is complicated, they don't want to be understood.