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Tag Archives: interaction
Bestfriend
I admit—I always need to be someone’s bestfriend. I also always need someone who I can refer to as my bestfriend. They’re practically the same thing, those two, and they are manifestations of my dependent personality. Although I’m not a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Personal
Tagged a separate peace, acquaintanceship, book review, compassion, essay, forgiveness, friendship, interaction, john knowles, life, manipulation, paranoia
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Conversations, confidences, and correspondences
I’m not really a conversationalist. In fact, I’m one of the worst persons to have a conversation with. And it’s because I don’t know how to respond to other people. I mean, I have no problem answering people’s questions—say, if … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged arthur schopenhauer, confidant, confindence, conversation, correspondence, email, essay, friends, friendship, inner warmth, interaction, j.d. salinger, life, madness, people, writing
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Exposure
One thing I realized while having one of my crazy walks this afternoon is that the suffering that makes our lives miserable is dependent to the things and people we are exposed with. I mean if we do not expose … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged arthur schopenhauer, bussinessmen, compassion, doctors, egoism, essay, evil, exposure, fellow-sufferer, human association, individualism, interaction, lawyers, lumpen proletariat, pain, petty thieves, philosophy, politicians, predation, predator, prey, reclusion, schopenhauer, self-reliance, solitude, suffering
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