Steph21 Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Lately I've been thinking a lot about how people just play into what they think you want them to say/do. It's fake and annoys me, but I'm realizing more and more how the majority of people in your life are like this. And there's really no way of telling for sure who is and isn't. So yeah, this is creating some paranoia with me right now, especially when it comes to dating relationships and such. I try to be honest with people all the time myself, but I've been testing out being more dishonest and have found that I get better responses and my social life has gotten a lot better since I've been purposely being more dishonest and acting like the people I'm around are the greatest in the world when that's not what I REALLY think. I don't like the way this makes me feel, so I'll probably just go back to being as honest as I can. But it still makes me think about how others I encounter, especially those with a lot of friends/lovers, are most likely just being so affirming because they want me to like them and do stuff for them. Like they're probably thinking what I've been thinking during my "dishonesty" experiment: "Geeze I can't believe he/she is actually buying this crap. He/she thinks I'm so into what he/she is saying and that I actually give a damn about their stupid life. He/she is not funny at all and I don't really think anything he/she says is particularly interesting or intelligent."
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