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Originally Posted by Rose76
Unknowingly, you're probably hurting others more than you realize. It's not what you intend.
Decent person though I am - and I AM - I still had this pocket of flippancy in my personality that came off a lot more aggressive to others than I had any idea.
People will not put up with it. And they won't bother telling you, either. They won't explain, so you'll understand. The world will leave you to figure it out . . . or not.
To some extent, I'm guessing. I just sense that, in some way, you seem over-confident. That can come off as unattractively cocky to others. That was my own story, so I am baring my soul to share this with you. Lonely is the worst way to live.
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That flippancy, may be, what my mom meant about how I deal with others, sometimes. But, before I was even in PC, on the highway, this morning, I was contemplating the need to catch more
flies with honey, than with vinegar! Why do I want to catch flies?
Do I honestly, turn others off, with what I have to say?! Is that my problem or theirs? If someone around me, doesn't have the cojones to say, you know what? I felt a little dismayed with what you said, then wouldn't this world be a lot better? Of course, I try my best, to be sensitive to what I say, and how I say it, but if people can't be honest and forthright, to begin with, why would I want them in my life.
There's that old saying, that as the years roll on, you'll be able to count your real friend on one hand.
Walking tall, with one's held high, is no reason to cast stones. Just sayin'.
That's how I took, the OP.