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Honestly, most of those of us who are lonely also hate corniness and artifice. And that sounds like both.
by goldenkey 6y ago
Honestly, most of those of us who are lonely also hate corniness and artifice. And that sounds like both.
- refulgentis 6y agoI feel compelled to share that after 30 years, my social anxiety only started improving once I stopped seeing stuff like this as "corniness" and "artifice" and instead as mundane BS that is step 1 of 100 towards a meaningful relationship. I was not the one blessed person on earth who was going to have lifelong friends fall into my lap from going to work[1] and the grocery store [1] _Small_ FAANG team, artifact of a reorg of a reorg
- alisonkisk 6y agoExactly right. "Corniness" is a symptom of the beholder's mental health challenge, not the conversation.
- goldenkey 6y agoMental challenged? That went from 0 to 100 quickly. It's isn't a DSM diagnosis to decline to be co-opted by feel-good but ultimately vapid, cloy gestures.