- Joined
- Jan 11, 2018
I've had my share of experiences, but I honestly couldn't say enough about any one of them to make a worthwhile post. It's just that I've never been able to retain specific memories for that kind of thing, because it selectively picks out the productive, interesting, meaningful, or fun information that comes to me and discards the rest.
I guess if I were to try and pin down an answer for the cause, I would say that it comes from how I conditioned myself to react to bullying and ostracisement early on in school. Instead of reacting with an attitude of "I wish I were more like you" and lamenting at normality and popularity being so out of reach, I simply thought "I wouldn't want to be like you" and let the scorn of people I didn't know become more and more meaningless to me over the years.
That said, I care deeply what those who are close say to me and I take serious consideration when someone logically criticizes me, but I surround myself with good friends, I've been blessed with a good immediate family, and I could hardly call random bigotry "logical criticism".
I guess if I were to try and pin down an answer for the cause, I would say that it comes from how I conditioned myself to react to bullying and ostracisement early on in school. Instead of reacting with an attitude of "I wish I were more like you" and lamenting at normality and popularity being so out of reach, I simply thought "I wouldn't want to be like you" and let the scorn of people I didn't know become more and more meaningless to me over the years.
That said, I care deeply what those who are close say to me and I take serious consideration when someone logically criticizes me, but I surround myself with good friends, I've been blessed with a good immediate family, and I could hardly call random bigotry "logical criticism".