Shoot The Moon

Feb 10, 2003 03:26

Oh, my LJ friends, always looking out for me.... I feel like I should apologize to the world for what appears to have been a colossally bad idea. I'm sorry. Please remember that these are merely the meanderings of a warped, lonely, depressed, and desperate mind. I shudder to think of the damage I caused to what any of you thought of me ( Read more... )

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Well, gottheremedy February 12 2003, 22:14:45 UTC
I really believe in that temperament thing and that some people are just much more aware of the things that go on around them and so are really good at being in tune with the emotions of others and observant of important details in social situations. Unfortunately, that also makes them really prone to anxiety, over-analyzation, and taking everything negative that they experience personally.

And because I tend to expend so much energy on all of the above activities, I definitely have to choose my battles. I mean, I try to meet as many people as possible, especially since I've moved here, but I realize that most of them aren't really important. That was a distinction that I wasn't able to make a while ago, because I always expected people to be exactly like me. So I took offense when they weren't as aware of my feelings as I was of theirs. Now I know, I can't count on anyone but myself to treat me how I deserve to be treated.

Once you really decide that and come to believe that your opinion of yourself is the only thing that matters, you can start testing your limits. You just learn to brush the haters off, basically, and it works, once you know how to do it. So you start interacting with people a lot more and realzing that no matter how outgoing you are, it's still a task to find the people that you really want to be with. You certainly start to "know" a lot of people, which can be good because you aren't scared of people anymore, but it's not necissarily as satisfying as you'd imagined it.

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Re: Well, mudville February 14 2003, 01:49:51 UTC
so when did you move here?
and where'd you move from?
and i can't seem to get to the schema site.
and i added you to my friends list.
i hope that's ok.

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