Kooky
Kooky
There is a facet to my personality that I am at a loss to explain. I want to see what you all might think. Here it is: If I meet someone and we don't hit it off in the beginning, that person will inevitably become one of my closest friends. And the reverse is also true; if I really like someone when I meet them for the first time, they usually end up being someone I can't stand or someone that I just don't care about one way or another. The closest explanation I've come up with so far is that perhaps the ones I don't initially like are the ones that challenge me in some way. Therefore, I find them more interesting or something? I don't know!! What's your opinion?
"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle." -James Keller
Say what you mean but don't say it mean. :yh_peace
Say what you mean but don't say it mean. :yh_peace
Kooky
I think it sounds pretty kooky.
Helpful thoughts? Maybe you spend too much time with the ones you hit it off with and burn it out real fast whereas the ones you don't like you have a chance to slowly learn to appreciate. The challenge theory sounds good too. How long do you remain friends with the ones you didn't like?
Helpful thoughts? Maybe you spend too much time with the ones you hit it off with and burn it out real fast whereas the ones you don't like you have a chance to slowly learn to appreciate. The challenge theory sounds good too. How long do you remain friends with the ones you didn't like?
Kooky
koan wrote: I think it sounds pretty kooky. Thanks. 
If you think it's kooky, it must be!! 
koan wrote: Helpful thoughts? Maybe you spend too much time with the ones you hit it off with and burn it out real fast whereas the ones you don't like you have a chance to slowly learn to appreciate. That's likely, I've considered that answer too.
koan wrote: The challenge theory sounds good too. How long do you remain friends with the ones you didn't like?Years longer. One friend I've known since junior high school, 20+ years, and in the beginning you couldn't have paid me to be around her for more than a few minutes. Two others I've known for 13 and 15 years. Couldn't stand either of them at first. Another woman, I met on the job about six years ago and we clashed over everything for the first year but during the second year we bonded for some reason or another. I think it happened after I told her to leave my classroom and not come back!
Since then she's babysat my children, I've kept hers and we get along pretty good. There are others; these are just a few examples.
If you think it's kooky, it must be!! koan wrote: Helpful thoughts? Maybe you spend too much time with the ones you hit it off with and burn it out real fast whereas the ones you don't like you have a chance to slowly learn to appreciate. That's likely, I've considered that answer too.
koan wrote: The challenge theory sounds good too. How long do you remain friends with the ones you didn't like?Years longer. One friend I've known since junior high school, 20+ years, and in the beginning you couldn't have paid me to be around her for more than a few minutes. Two others I've known for 13 and 15 years. Couldn't stand either of them at first. Another woman, I met on the job about six years ago and we clashed over everything for the first year but during the second year we bonded for some reason or another. I think it happened after I told her to leave my classroom and not come back!
Since then she's babysat my children, I've kept hers and we get along pretty good. There are others; these are just a few examples."A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle." -James Keller
Say what you mean but don't say it mean. :yh_peace
Say what you mean but don't say it mean. :yh_peace
Kooky
Just so you know you're not THAT weird...One of my closest friends started out at odds with me, until I baked her an anarchy cake for her birthday.
Kooky
koan wrote: Just so you know you're not THAT weird...One of my closest friends started out at odds with me, until I baked her an anarchy cake for her birthday.
Us dudes don't have problems like that. That's why we don't talk about our feelings. That's why we're better mechanics than you guys. We can't make friends like you because most of us can't bake cakes.( note slight twist of head and tautening of the arm muscles). Birthday, heck, we take 'em out and get 'em soused.
That's not weird. What is weird is that so many people don't cop to being in that number.
Us dudes don't have problems like that. That's why we don't talk about our feelings. That's why we're better mechanics than you guys. We can't make friends like you because most of us can't bake cakes.( note slight twist of head and tautening of the arm muscles). Birthday, heck, we take 'em out and get 'em soused.
That's not weird. What is weird is that so many people don't cop to being in that number.
Kooky
Enigma wrote: There is a facet to my personality that I am at a loss to explain. I want to see what you all might think. Here it is: If I meet someone and we don't hit it off in the beginning, that person will inevitably become one of my closest friends. And the reverse is also true; if I really like someone when I meet them for the first time, they usually end up being someone I can't stand or someone that I just don't care about one way or another. The closest explanation I've come up with so far is that perhaps the ones I don't initially like are the ones that challenge me in some way. Therefore, I find them more interesting or something? I don't know!! What's your opinion?That's why you're an ENIGMA!!!
:yh_rotfl
:yh_rotfl
Kooky
valerie wrote: That's why you're an ENIGMA!!!
:yh_rotfl Oh, is that what enigma means? :p
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Oh, is that what enigma means? :p"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle." -James Keller
Say what you mean but don't say it mean. :yh_peace
Say what you mean but don't say it mean. :yh_peace
Kooky
kensloft wrote: Us dudes don't have problems like that. That's why we don't talk about our feelings. That's why we're better mechanics than you guys. We can't make friends like you because most of us can't bake cakes.( note slight twist of head and tautening of the arm muscles). Birthday, heck, we take 'em out and get 'em soused.
That's not weird. What is weird is that so many people don't cop to being in that number.
No. You "dudes" have stranger problems.
You better learn to bake a cake by September. Or you'll be strangely lonely.
That's not weird. What is weird is that so many people don't cop to being in that number.
No. You "dudes" have stranger problems.
You better learn to bake a cake by September. Or you'll be strangely lonely.
Kooky
koan wrote: No. You "dudes" have stranger problems.
You better learn to bake a cake by September. Or you'll be strangely lonely.
(imagine whimpering, whining, fearful, fidgeting male moving in chair)
I know that I answered this before. I will let you help me to learn how to bake a cake. That way you will have the cake of your dreams. I promise to learn how to bake in time for your birthday. I won't make any excuses of how men are. I will go to the bakery if need be and have them claim that I baked it.
Men are really, really nice. Some of them. A few? Some are gooder than others.
Just because we don't bake doesn't mean that you can be better mechanics than we are. :-5
You better learn to bake a cake by September. Or you'll be strangely lonely.
(imagine whimpering, whining, fearful, fidgeting male moving in chair)
I know that I answered this before. I will let you help me to learn how to bake a cake. That way you will have the cake of your dreams. I promise to learn how to bake in time for your birthday. I won't make any excuses of how men are. I will go to the bakery if need be and have them claim that I baked it.
Men are really, really nice. Some of them. A few? Some are gooder than others.
Just because we don't bake doesn't mean that you can be better mechanics than we are. :-5