A somewhat public apology
So. H'okay. I was involved in a discussion about friendship today with someone and I realized that, well...im pretty socially skewed. Most of you have proooobably already realized this by now, but i didn't until this afternoon. See, here's the way a normal person probably views the progression of friendship:
|unknown|-------acquaintances----------|-------------------friends------------------|good-friends|
Here, however, is how my social progression tends to work with people:
|unknown|acquaintances|--------friends----------|------------------good-friends----------------|
Now, generally, that means I'm quick to open up to people and make friends. Usually. However, in this day-in-age, thats not entirely...wanted. Its a sad state of affairs, but fear of the "creeper" has made it a bit harder for people to open up and be friendly. I am afraid, after thinking about it the entire day, that I may have given a few people the creeper vibe that, well, is completely unfounded and unintentional.
In fact, creepers give me the willies. Very much so. I am not a fan of the "creeper", in fact i have known quite a few of them throughout various stages of my life, from the point of view of an innocent bystander as well as the one being, well, stalked. Theres nothing thats more discomforting and intrusive that I can think of.
So, if there's a few of you out there that I may have rubbed the wrong way, I do apologize sincerely. What probably happened was I thought you were cool, and moved you up to the friends section pretty early. Then I most likely thought you were really cool, and bumped you up to the good friends section. Meanwhile, I was maaaybe halfway through the acquaintances stage, which leaves a pretty big gap.
So yeahs. I apologize. I'm going to try to get my social-stage flowchart to try to look more like the top one. Or, if not, I'll make it look like this.
|unknown|-------acquaintances----------|-------------------friends------------------|good-friends|
Here, however, is how my social progression tends to work with people:
|unknown|acquaintances|--------friends----------|------------------good-friends----------------|
Now, generally, that means I'm quick to open up to people and make friends. Usually. However, in this day-in-age, thats not entirely...wanted. Its a sad state of affairs, but fear of the "creeper" has made it a bit harder for people to open up and be friendly. I am afraid, after thinking about it the entire day, that I may have given a few people the creeper vibe that, well, is completely unfounded and unintentional.
In fact, creepers give me the willies. Very much so. I am not a fan of the "creeper", in fact i have known quite a few of them throughout various stages of my life, from the point of view of an innocent bystander as well as the one being, well, stalked. Theres nothing thats more discomforting and intrusive that I can think of.
So, if there's a few of you out there that I may have rubbed the wrong way, I do apologize sincerely. What probably happened was I thought you were cool, and moved you up to the friends section pretty early. Then I most likely thought you were really cool, and bumped you up to the good friends section. Meanwhile, I was maaaybe halfway through the acquaintances stage, which leaves a pretty big gap.
So yeahs. I apologize. I'm going to try to get my social-stage flowchart to try to look more like the top one. Or, if not, I'll make it look like this.