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I read a lot on these forums about people complaining about how shallow people of the world are and how other people ignore them because they do not fit into a certain group or look a certain way. I would like to offer the perspective that we are not much different than the people of the world that look down on us.
I sometimes get upset with people who I feel are ignoring me or seemingly don’t care that I exist. I think to myself, “man, if these people would get off their high horse long enough to just get to know me….”
But wait….Am I any different than the people I speak of that seemingly ignore me?…no, I’m not.
There have been plenty of people throughout my life that I have sadly looked down upon and not gotten to know simply because I didn’t care for how they looked or I didn’t want for other people to see me associated with that person. I may have always been shy, but especially in high school, I wanted to be seen with the right type of people, even if those people were not true friends. I ignored and did not communicate with certain people that I knew other people didn‘t want to have anything to do with. If I thought other people would ridicule me for becoming buddies with a certain person then I stayed away from that person and I ignored them even if they tried to get to know me.
I now regret that I did that because I’m sure those people feel just as bad, and probably worse then I do about my social life. Even though I was lonely I would not talk to certain people based simply on my views of them, others views of them, or how they looked.
Really, I feel that everyone is like me to a certain extent. It may seem like your problems are caused by the world, but have there been chances that you didn’t take advantage of based simply on your biases or feelings against a person?
People aren’t much different, and to a certain extent everyone who is not happy with their situation has chances to change or make their lives better, and many times we do not take those chances because we are too blind blaming other people for their failures that we do not see our own.
I sometimes get upset with people who I feel are ignoring me or seemingly don’t care that I exist. I think to myself, “man, if these people would get off their high horse long enough to just get to know me….”
But wait….Am I any different than the people I speak of that seemingly ignore me?…no, I’m not.
There have been plenty of people throughout my life that I have sadly looked down upon and not gotten to know simply because I didn’t care for how they looked or I didn’t want for other people to see me associated with that person. I may have always been shy, but especially in high school, I wanted to be seen with the right type of people, even if those people were not true friends. I ignored and did not communicate with certain people that I knew other people didn‘t want to have anything to do with. If I thought other people would ridicule me for becoming buddies with a certain person then I stayed away from that person and I ignored them even if they tried to get to know me.
I now regret that I did that because I’m sure those people feel just as bad, and probably worse then I do about my social life. Even though I was lonely I would not talk to certain people based simply on my views of them, others views of them, or how they looked.
Really, I feel that everyone is like me to a certain extent. It may seem like your problems are caused by the world, but have there been chances that you didn’t take advantage of based simply on your biases or feelings against a person?
People aren’t much different, and to a certain extent everyone who is not happy with their situation has chances to change or make their lives better, and many times we do not take those chances because we are too blind blaming other people for their failures that we do not see our own.