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Originally Posted by golden_eve
And it brought me right back to high school, where I felt excluded from the "cool" and the "in" crowd.
Now I feel awful. Had he not said anything, I would not have thought twice about it.
I've never had a large group of friends. I have loads of friends, but very scattered and from different groups. I've never been part of a "group".
It just brought back old adolescent feelings and I feel ashamed for even feeling that way.
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The reason you get the adolescent feelings is because people are in fact acting like adolescents, forming cliques. I can feel the "cliquey aura" sometimes, when I walk into a social circle.
That's why people try desperately to fit in and maintain their status. But I'd rather stay true to myself, and do what is comfortable for me. And that's mostly possible in real but scattered friendships. "Groups" tend to get cliquey for whatever reason.