"He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready..."
5 days ago | 92
Well yes, when you are conditioned to not exist basically, to avoid being a burden whatsoever to anyone, you grow up, and every social situation where you need to exist becomes a fight, it gets really exhausting
6 days ago | 53
I stop my self from trying to be funny, charming, ect, it helps when theres no pressure to be anything, talking to people with curiosity was the big break through for me being curious and openly listening about them as a person I think makes them feel heard, encouraging people to do what they like in social environments like "you wanna do this? Yeah, let's do it right now" (depens on the context) creates a good bond. It takes practice to not be nervous and to be fluent with your voice,i had a time in mylife i would try diffrent styles of reaction to see witch one would get the best response, I found best to take conversation or anything with curiosity In the end feel fullfiled at the end and not just tired "self improve" (torture) Don't push your self to hard go with passion
5 days ago | 1
another very simple, very accurate illustration of a problem lots of us run into. great posts lately :)
5 days ago | 1
I fall into one of two traps— getting triangulated into someone else’s situation and being too in my head that I’m not having an authentic reaction
4 days ago | 0
How can I watch them? Isn't it free? All of them have locks
5 days ago | 7
Not me thinking the picture at the end was a bizarre update to the periodic table. . .😁
6 days ago | 3
I’m just worried about reverberations from past happenings which I won’t know other people are concerned about. So I’m anxious about other people’s anxieties… very meta and hard to discuss openly.
6 days ago | 5
This is brilliant! Paying attention to the conversation almost completely resolves the problem of what to say.
6 days ago | 3
I just look at them and tell them about fallout new vegas and music Tbh now I know why I don't have that many friends 😅
5 days ago | 0
Ohh going down the shady guru way of life. Slowly more and more p2w like anything today.
5 days ago | 0
It’s largely the other person’s fault for not allowing them to be authentic.
5 days ago | 1
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6 days ago | [YT] | 916