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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
I think you're just over analyzing. What makes you think you talk and reveal too much? So what if you say irrelevant things? I don't think others analyze you as much as you do yourself. Maybe the times you are withdrawn are because that conversation doesn't interest you.
I have had experience with my saying things I regretted saying when with people IRL. Like I try not to gossip, and may I slip. Or I reveal something I didn't want them to know. So, I know what you mean.
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I don't know, it seems to me that people don't like either extreme. If I don't speak or participate I will be considered arrogant and end up isolated and eventually depressed, and if I participate and speak too much I won't be taken seriously, and end up marginalized. I have the capacity to appear naive. I think part of it because I don't like hurting others, and ignoring them. Both are bad for me, too, as a result. There is a saying to Abraham Lincoln in this I keep remembering
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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I am not sure if keeping myself silent and withdrawn is a better option for me in light of the only other alternative.