I spend my life stomping on eggshells.

I grew up surrounded by open, honest and most importantly tolerant people so naturally I am a pretty down to earth, well intentioned dude. I could never bring someone down, lie, deny a listening ear to someone who really needed it.

I guess coming from an atmosphere where you can say whatever you feel like without being judged breeds some bad habits....I act like a prick just for laughs, talk about whatever I feel like at the most inappropriate times, I'm over emotional but at no point do I feel like I do anything that exposes a rotten heart (and god have I known some real ones).

I always meet people crazy and pure enough to see the better side of me and others, so I can't really complain. But i just find it a matter of curiosity that since I have left my home town, I've always had people really hate me too, or just have been really weary of me...whether online, or at work. No matter what I say or do, I just manage to set alarm bells ringing, I get talked about behind my back when I always tell people things to their face, mostly good things. Because of an illness i'm tired all the time for no reason, and that seems to scare people most of all...

I'm just some honest guy who wants nothing but to get by...why all the hate?

That was something brewing inside that needed to be let out.

Merry Xmas and peace to all.

 

One must always approach things with common sense.

If your co-worker is a Christian, then don't make Jesus-sex jokes... no matter how innocent they are.

That is if you really want to please these people.

I myself also tend to get a kick out of shock value... but I know better than to do that, even if it's just for kicks, to people whom I have to see often.

I don't have a problem making a Jesus sex joke to a Christian, but I'm not going to make a Jesus sex joke to my boss at work who's a strict Christian... see what I mean?

 

Oh shit yeah...I totally agree, I don't really get in trouble for bagging minority groups, probably defending them is more my problem. Actually, to be honest, I don't really know what it is I do wrong except that the people that generally hate me are white and middle class.

 

I feel like I am shamefully inviting some public psychoanalysis here but...

I am nervy, self deprecating, completely random, overly smiley, talk constantly about nothing, quite alternative and left but keep opinions to myself. And I can NOT helping standing up to a bully, a dishonest person or just an all out prick...I am frightened of nobody.

Yes, I can see how that might not fit the mold for the popular guy....but how am I a "bad" person?

 

You really needn't describe yourself as what you're posting is furnishing that already.

Nearly everyone will characterize themselves as honest so you'll forgive me if I say that the accolades that a person heaps on himself ring fairly hollow.

 

Well, another question... does what does people think of you truly matter to you?

 

The more I pass through the world, the more I find swathes of people that can effortlessly lie, gossip and completely switch off to the feelings of others, and with my upbringing I find this incredibly hard to do for any reason, therefore I see no problem in calling myself honest.

Self disciplined, patient, humble? Hardly.

While I claim to "do the right thing", I haven't lay claim to any importance or that I actually enrich the world or anybody's lives at all. I just know for sure I have spent my few adult years putting a high priority on being a decent human being before anything else and I know now they weren't wasted.

I think the next step is learning to reject whatever image people might impose on me. The point of this thread is not about blowing my own trumpet, but just a simple reflection on the fact that people can just get things so horribly wrong.

 

Yeah, i just thought of that. Its funny how the simple things escape us.

 

Yeah, I just don't understand why you care.