"I've felt wierd around you as long as I've known you."
Maturity. A virtue not all possess. Stupidity. A characteristic most males possess. When one lacks the former but possesses the latter, the results are often laugh-worthy. Such is my title. I say these things with not a bitter or resentful tone, but with one with an air of sarcastic humor.
I have trouble understanding why knowing someone is interested in you should make the friendship awkward for more than just a single moment. I think the individual I am talking about is unaware of the concept of liking someone, yet not always having that particular goal, the one of being with them, in mind.
It is in my nature, and the nature of most humans I think, to be curious about the potential of any relationship. However, that does not distract one's mind from the idea of friendship alone. And I do find it immature to feel wierd around someone simply because they have explored in their mind this potential.
And if one does feel this way, it makes sense to communicate. Tell the person doing the liking that you are not interested, tell them you feel awkward about it. But certainly do not wait two months to tell the person that ever since the friendship was first established, you have felt wierd around them. That only leaves them feeling a)foolish, b)a bit angry c)confused, d)a little upset. You can not have a friendship without communication, and that principle holds true even when one friend is interested in the other.
Now for my please and thanks: Please, be mature! On the other hand, Thanks for making it so easy for the interested person to no longer be interested and make you feel wierd.
(This entry was not intented to be mean or sound angry. Just thought I'd write in a more formal way with some voice. And I dont mean to imply I don't want to be friends, I just found this whole wierdness amusing to some extent.)
I have trouble understanding why knowing someone is interested in you should make the friendship awkward for more than just a single moment. I think the individual I am talking about is unaware of the concept of liking someone, yet not always having that particular goal, the one of being with them, in mind.
It is in my nature, and the nature of most humans I think, to be curious about the potential of any relationship. However, that does not distract one's mind from the idea of friendship alone. And I do find it immature to feel wierd around someone simply because they have explored in their mind this potential.
And if one does feel this way, it makes sense to communicate. Tell the person doing the liking that you are not interested, tell them you feel awkward about it. But certainly do not wait two months to tell the person that ever since the friendship was first established, you have felt wierd around them. That only leaves them feeling a)foolish, b)a bit angry c)confused, d)a little upset. You can not have a friendship without communication, and that principle holds true even when one friend is interested in the other.
Now for my please and thanks: Please, be mature! On the other hand, Thanks for making it so easy for the interested person to no longer be interested and make you feel wierd.
(This entry was not intented to be mean or sound angry. Just thought I'd write in a more formal way with some voice. And I dont mean to imply I don't want to be friends, I just found this whole wierdness amusing to some extent.)