Newpurple wrote:
Does anyone of you truly feel you fit in among your friends IRL? Do you ever get the feeling that the things you have in common with your friends are very few or insignificant?
I think I have a problem where I can never get the feeling of fitting in anywhere (except here). I have nerd friends who like programming like me, but that is all I have in common with them. I have less nerdy friends who have been there since my childhood, but when I think about it, I only have the childhood in common with them, and if we had been introduced to each other a week ago, I probably wouldn't be their friend.
Whenever I see people connect through a conversation I always feel envy. I am unable to connect to anyone like other people. How do they do it? How can I become interested in discussing my interests with others?
Whenever I do find something in common with another person, I feel that I still have nothing to discuss with said person. We both like the same things, what is there to add to it, anyway? I think this is why I have problems making new friends nowadays. I just don't connect with others. I can't fit in.
I look at this from exactly opposite direction; I love talking to people that are nothing like me, that have not much (if nothing at all) in common with me.
Trough talking, sharing opinions, trough asking certain accurate questions and listening to answers, we can mutualy understand our different points of view. That makes every conversation feel so fresh.
I think there's not a single soul in here that thinks the simillar way as I do. Looking, talking, listening to people from different places, experiences, opinions, points of view, is most amusing, most interesting to me. I like to try to understand, analyse before I label something as not worth my time or just plain stupid.
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Do you ever get the feeling that the things you have in common with your friends are very few or insignificant?
So what, people are different, each one of us is unique. Often that makes things interesing. Never-ending disputes about who's more right, feelings about certain situations, experiences or circumstances. If you know many interesting people (from different social groups especially) and listen to them and their opinions it's easier to develop your own and look at things from wider perspective, and what's more essencial - be more interesting yourself.
Purple, about overal of your speach; have you ever thought it the other way around? Sometimes to receive something you must also represent something, meaby it's you that's boring IRL?
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Do normal people find thrill in talking to others when they have a common interest?
First of all I don't know your definition of "normal people". Anyway. I don't, not much since the other person most of the time has exactly the same opinion or taste as mine, like you said "there's nothing to add to it". BUT. I like to enjoy doing things with such people if we both find it enjoyable but not really talking. 4 example: "Hey, we both like to go into wilds and camping, let's go camping together."
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Is it that I've gotten so cynical that I cannot respect any other human beeing anymore?
When others say, act or do something stupid, most of the time it looks stupid only if you have a shallow view of human character. Because you don't try to understand, you don't ask "Why?".
If you put effort in understanding others, things may start to look way differently, it's always easier to be ignorant but honestly I get the feeling that's the main cause of boredoom.
I think that you're cynical because you feel like you're better than others, which makes you a jerk and that's probably why you can't fit anywhere.
If you have just cynical, dark sense of humor then why not share it with otheres? There are people that should appreciate your company even only because you can make them laugh. Also, laughter is a double-edged sword; I think it's very rare to not enjoy company of someone that laughs at your jokes or sarcastic comments.
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Does anyone of you truly feel you fit in among your friends IRL?
I get that a lot, I never met anyone that looks at things with even simillar perspective as mine, but, I've met a lot of people that share my opinions on many things, just it's the reasons that differ.
Many of my friends approves of what I say but most of the time we have different reasons. I think it's quite normal and common.
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I have less nerdy friends who have been there since my childhood, but when I think about it, I only have the childhood in common with them, and if we had been introduced to each other a week ago, I probably wouldn't be their friend.
Childhood friends are particulary strange creatures, most of the time you enjoying (meaby enjoy is too strong word...) their company not because of common interests or simillar characters but because you both know each other for so long that you entirely stopped beeing cautious of opinions about each other, so you can truly act as yourselves. And most of the time you can say whatever you truly think or just tell them anything that bothers you, not even in search of help or advice but to lift some weight from your mind.
Actualy, now that I think of it you don't even have to say anything - just sheer feeling that you know you can, can bring some relief to troubled mind.
AFK wrote:
How everyone here is a weird fuck alienated from the rest of human society.
I don't see myself as alienated, weird - meaby a little, but deffinietly not alienated.
Remon wrote:
Drinking fixes all my social problems.
I don't drink (at all) and yet I never felt like I had any troubles getting along with people... with few exceptions. Like:
1. overly-cautious, shy and socially awkward people - you can't get along with someone if the person runs away as you try to approach her (it's hard to me since I have tendency to get loud and quite straightfoward if i start to like someone);
2. people with no personal opinions - extremely annoying if the person is boring, as has no opinion about anything or just goes with the flow or agrees to anything you say (also that's sometimes the case with cautious types as they are afraid to oppose you because you will dislike them, which actualy has the effect they try to avoid);
3. ignorant people - there are exceptions to the rule but usualy if someone doesn't respect you, the feeling's mutual. Sometimes there are people that you grow to like and have fun as you openly start to barking at each other;
4. extremely-lazy people - because how can you like someone that each time responds "I don't feel like it" (I think that opposite gender is exception to the rule since it's always to get lazy as long as you do it together, especialy when you have some attractive view to contemplate on).