I don't like meeting new people. The typical response to that here is that I should "grow" and "learn" and "step outside my comfort zone" and whatnot, but I also don't like pineapples. I'm not going to force-feed myself pineapples when I know I don't like them. Can I "grow" and "learn" to start liking pineapples?
I keep a very small number of people inside my circle of trust. But I'm extremely caring, loving, and loyal to those people, and then it hurts really bad when one of those people checks out of the circle. I'm just not wired in a way to have casual relationships. They don't do anything for me.
Neither do pineapples.
-PM
I see where you are going with this, but I think pineapples are a poor analogy, because it is reasonable to assume that eating or not eating pineapples isn't affecting your life in any meaningful way.
A more appropriate analogy would be if you were diabetic, and you decided you didn't like taking insulin. Or if you were overweight and decided you didn't like to exercise. Because by refusing to try, you are harming yourself.
What if there was a zombie apocalypse, and in the end, the only things left on earth to eat were moldy cheese and pineapples? Would you keep eating the moldy cheese, even if it made you sick day after day? That's what you are choosing right now. Maybe, just maybe, if you tried to eat pineapples, you might find that they aren't that bad after all. Maybe you would find a really nice juicy sweet pineapple! Maybe you would drink a tropical drink out of a carved out pineapple, on the beach in Bora Bora. Oh, no. You won't, because you prefer moldy cheese day in and day out.
Look, you don't have to learn and grow. But if you don't, you will stay stuck where you are.
And do you disagree when I say that having your W as your only friend (as you have stated yourself) is keeping you stuck?
It didn't even occur to me until I typed it, but wow, in addition to keeping you stuck, that's a big burden on your W, isn't it?
me: 44 XH: 42 M 11 years D10 and S8 Bomb drop 9/27/13 D final 7/1/14
