The entire world revolves around how people perceive each other. We base our choices on what others would think. So, everyone walks around trying to develop an image of themselves. Some will tell everyone how horrible their lives are, wallow themselves into a pit of despair and walk around with a blue funk to grab attention. Others like to exclaim about all the amazing things they have done to grab the attention of others. But no one does it for themselves. We don't walk around doing these things for any other reason than to grab the attention and minds of others, manipulating them (or trying to) in order to get people to think how smart we are or to throw pity at us.
The people I tend to love the most are the people who are truly depressed (you know this because they act happy until you grow really close to them) or the people who truly are smart (and don't have to tell you they are) or the people who are truly in pain (because it takes three years of being friends with them before you know they have cancer) or the people who are truly amazing runners because the run a race as if they were taking a stroll to the bathroom and it is completely normal.
I also like those who know and free admit they doing things to turn the perceptions of others. They realize fully and that they have to do certain things to get people to think differently about them. Some of them are ok with it and some aren't. But none the less they know they do and ADMIT to it. We all know we do it to a degree but no one wants to admit it because then we are naked and everything we worked so hard to lie about has become exposed as a lie (or at least not the entire truth we would like it to be).
I hope for the most part that I can do things nearly for myself and that what I say and do aren't lies to grab the attention of others, but alas I am guilty of having done so as is everyone. I am not perfect that's for sure....if such perfection exists.
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