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Originally Posted by Xaldin
I'm pretty much the exact same way. Although I tend to focus more on the being a "smart-***" route. I think it's just because if you have dealt with so much negative, you tend to project it quite a bit.
I tend to have a much...darker... perspective with life. The whole "Im not a pessimist, I'm a realist" attitude. I tend to find people who are overly optimistic well.. annoying. Yet I feel I don't do it to be mean, it's just a result of cause and effect. Again, I try to put it as smart *** sarcasm than straight bluntness so I don't come off as a jerk. Kind of a House attitude.
We try to downplay things because it probably helps our world outlook in our minds. Because if thing's go well for others but not ourselves... we obviously feel bad about it. It can also lead to feelings of envy and/or jealousy. It's something I still deal with.
Deep down we just want the world to cut US a break for a change.
Another thing to point out is we try to keep ourselves level... sort of restrain from elevating our mood to an extent. The higher the rise of good feeling... the further the drop we can experience of bad.
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No, I'm the same exact way! House-esque describes me perfectly. If you don't mind my asking, are you male or female? Because from your username, I assume you are male. I feel the smart arseness is generally more accepted from males than it is from females, especially by other females. My male colleagues can get away with a lot more of the wry sense of humor, sarcasm, dry wit, smart-azzedness and "realism" than I can for SURE. That's not an indictment against men, I think it's just societal conditioning. Especially in the area I live. My area is slowly inching toward being more progressive but it's historically been a conservative part of the state. When I moved here 20 years ago, my mouth got me into trouble almost daily.
