I’ve found myself thinking that. I have a mind full of prejudices that are just excuses for wanting to back away from people. I wonder if I will ever be sincerely sociable.
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I don’t know why we do that, rejecting people we hardly know. I want to change that about me.
Another point, do you realize how powerful a good smile is socially? But I hardly have one, and in fact I think I look discontent with a frown. But then when I get down about this, someone is nice to me and it changes my whole outlook on life. People will love me even with all the problems that go with this sz.
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More often I decide that people won’t like me. When it comes to romance, I’m probably usually right.
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That is one thing I learned how to do at that senior living community I stayed at for three years: I learned how to smile at people and say hello. Everyone was so very open and friendly at that senior community. And they were all so very rich. A different class of people. They taught me how to be like them. Now, I live in a regular community among younger and poorer people. And they are all sooooo unsociable. I force them to be sociable by smiling at them, making eye contact and saying hello to them. Sure makes my days go sweeter.
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Well I dont care about that I still like you @PinCushion
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It’s usually a physical, visual rejection from me, so it doesn’t apply to people on the forum. 
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I think I may sometimes ignore people just so I can’t b rejected first
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Honestly, not liking people is my default setting. I can override it and be polite and get along with strangers, but I won’t pretend I enjoy it when I usually don’t. It’s more a case of I do it because I recognize I have to or my health will decline as a result.
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I think I have given up on that. I push people away too. I’ve been listening to “Thus Spake Zarathustra” on Youtube, and the larger part of Nietszche’s philosophy consisted of why you should push people away. I do the same thing, but for different reasons. Nietszche is too disdainful for me.
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