Why is it that if someone is clinically depressed, there is typically help for them, and everybody sympathizes, but someone with monomania gets mislabeled as schizophrenic
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Because they use their popularity only to help themselves and a small circle of friends and I will use it to help anyone who is struggling with social life make it in this world.
Well it's not so much that the individual is being selfish, but the individuals in that group are supporting a group that is cliquish, which is the group equivalent of selfishness, and is wrong for the same reasons.
Nnnno. It's a group of friends that look out for eachother. IMO it's not the attention you're jealous of, it's the fact that they have friends. :S That is what it sounds like.
Plus, you seem to think that attention is an object you can hold in your hand and break pieces off and give it to others. How can you getting attention make it so that you can give it to others??
Actually you can give attention to others. It's called social networking.
And yes, you pretty much got me. I am jealous that they have friends, and not just any friends, but ones who enjoy talking about intellectual issues without having problems with whatever is being disputed.
I'm jealous for a good reason. I deserve it, and often times some of the people who HAVE it don't.
I'm curious why exactly you think you deserve it. Like an actual, concrete reason about why people would want to be around you and care about you. "I'd do good things with your attention!" isn't a reason anyone becomes friends. Perhaps that's your problem - instead of whining about how you deserve something, go out and make yourself someone people positively gravitate towards.
You make a good point. I suppose the answer is for me to act online the way I act offline.
I will, of course, have to get out of the tendency to treat people according to the logical conclusions of their beliefs and instead treat them how I would want to be treated.
What I mean is that I tend to treat people who believe the internet is for lulz with the very level of respect they show others. What I should be doing is being more personable and becoming a good role model for them so that they will stop believing that "LOL INTERNET" crap and instead be more sensitive.
That sounds like a very good plan! As cliche as it is, treating others the way you'd like to be treated (and with NO expectations in return) makes people *want* to be around you. It might take some time, though, so I'd recommend making this change for you, to make your life better, rather than simply to make others like you. Good luck! <3
Just curious.
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That is what it sounds like.
Plus, you seem to think that attention is an object you can hold in your hand and break pieces off and give it to others. How can you getting attention make it so that you can give it to others??
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And yes, you pretty much got me. I am jealous that they have friends, and not just any friends, but ones who enjoy talking about intellectual issues without having problems with whatever is being disputed.
I'm jealous for a good reason. I deserve it, and often times some of the people who HAVE it don't.
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I will, of course, have to get out of the tendency to treat people according to the logical conclusions of their beliefs and instead treat them how I would want to be treated.
What I mean is that I tend to treat people who believe the internet is for lulz with the very level of respect they show others. What I should be doing is being more personable and becoming a good role model for them so that they will stop believing that "LOL INTERNET" crap and instead be more sensitive.
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