People are a strange thing.
I find it interesting in my observations on how people's reactions to various scenarios only change if the need aligns with how they are functionally wired.
Functionally wired to me, is defined by how we are taught to behave/react or what we have learned from birth. The main influences on this tend to be our immediate families for the most part. With a minor tip of the hat to group experiences in environments such as school.
Such a complex microcosm, no? I also think that's where we learn how to lie. But we'll save that tangent for another post.
Oh yeah, back to the subject at hand...
Not every statement or post or comment is always directed at you. Feel like that was directed at you? It wasn't, I was generalizing.That right there is some passive-aggressive bullshit if ever and it applies so many times. I find myself constantly halting my thought process when I read a comment someone I know makes so I don't let my idiosyncrasies cause a mess. I fail at that as much as I succeed, but I am trying at least.
Perhaps for a good percentage of people that is true, but for the most part it's quite narcissistic to assume "it's all about you". According to the National Institutes on Health, that's a classic definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Personally, I think that's painting too broad of a brush stroke since I can't say everyone has this affliction. Hell, I might have it even.
Moving right along...
I used to love sitting in the bars and watching people. Most of the time I'd do it sober so I could reflect on it some other time. You can see every facet of the human psyche in an environment like that. Good, evil, dark, light, chaotic, and neutral. And oh what wars those facets wage. I'm even not so sure the booze causes it, I more so believe the booze takes the societal inhibitions away and lets people's true inner colors out. Hell it's done it for me in the "Hold my beer and watch this!" kind of stunt.
I'm not known for my Einstein level brilliance, nor for my ability to not try to one up people in anything.
Perhaps one day I'll understand this and people more? I hope so, my distrust and jaded perspective are really bothering me lately.
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