Social choices

[banzai]

Since the sun is rising later, I'm getting more time on clear mornings to sit outside and write before being blinded by it. Would love to learn to use that time well, because I'm just better when I'm regularly taking the time to write

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[overcast]

...that realization countered my internal accusation that I "just don't like people."

I also tend to think that I "just don't like people", and I've come to the same realization--although not so consciously (until now!) I DO like people, I like a lot of people, I just don't like a lot of people all in one place. I go to a knitting group and I find that I like it best when there are just a few of us. Any more than three or four (tops!) people, and I'm overwhelmed.

[banzai]

Yeah, it's funny-I could tell anyone else that it's OK for introverts to be limited in how much time we spend with others, especially in large groups. Yet when I assess myself and how many times I want to say "no," I still assume I'm being a jerk somehow.

[jadeejf]

What the heck does 'living authentically' mean anyway? I mean, I get it in theory, but the term itself is just so cheesy and loaded and not useful. Like the rest of the world is living fakely, somehow? Bah.

/grumpy rant

[banzai]

I wish I didn't hear phrases like this as often as I do. It sounds like a caricature, but people really say this stuff! And my experience of it is thoroughly postmodern-it can mean something, but it doesn't have to mean anything at all! Regrettably, when I hear stuff like this, it's almost invariably PoMo code for "doing whatever I want while taking away anyone else's right to judge what I'm doing."

Plus, it's just snotty a lot of the time, for exactly the reason you cite.