This will be a learning experience! By nature I’m a quiet person until someone gets to know me. It’ll be interesting to see how challenging blogging will be for me. I’m not shy so much as just not good at the small talk. I’m aware that this probably hurts me as far as others perceptions of me, but am just not able to think of anything interesting to say as far as the weather, etc. Subjects I would like to talk about and find fascinating usually get me blank looks in return!
Here’s something I would like people to know. When I ask “How’re you doing?” I asked because I’m interested in the answer. Of course an individual has a right not to share this if they don’t want to, they can say “o.k.” If I know them well I’ll point out “Really? Because you don’t look it”
Is this presumtious? How many times do you say ok because it’s polite? What would happen if you told the truth?
May 1, 2008 at 3:56 pm |
Hi and thanks for the comment on my blog
Welcome to blogging, I guess?
It actually took me this long to realize I can Google your nick and find your wordpress blog. I have always found it strange why people that are logged in on WordPress do not automatically leave a link of their WordPress blog behind in their comments, while users who are not logged in get to input the URL of their wordpress blog which helps with getting the people to their blogs. Weird priorities if you ask me. Have I just not configured it right? But I digress…
I think it is definitely interesting (or perhaps just funny) that you are not interested in smalltalk yet like to ask and continue conversations starting with “how are you?”. Those are usually the conversations that either end fast, as you said, or continue with less personal but more superficial things.
I personally never like to ask people that, because I usually still cannot think of anything to say after they go “I’m alright, you?” apart from “I’m good, too” and then as reply back “Great” and then ending with a “Yeah”. Which is then usually followed by an awkward silence.
May 3, 2008 at 1:41 pm |
Thanks for the comment Wobbler,
Yes the silence can be awkward, that’s where I’m lost!
As for the blog tags well I’m defintely not configured right on that. I need more experience I guess.
May 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm |
Hmm I see what I did wrong. In the WordPress profile, you are supposed to fill in “Website” yourself. That way, every time you post, the nick is automatically a link to the site that you desire. That is actually a good way to handle this, not sure why I have not tried it after all this time. Ah well.
October 5, 2008 at 3:13 pm |
I love it when I come into contact with someone that asks, “How are you?”…especially if they don’t really care and are doing so out of a kneejerk response that they have aquired. “Thank God you asked! I ahve been having sooo many problem as a of late. First there’s my kids…and, oh! does this look infected to you? Why is Holland so far away? It seems so unfair that those people have all this way to walk in those uncomfortable wooden shoes. Did you know that I am still upset that Katrina Beckely beat me in that art contest in third grade? I think her parents helped her draw it. My parents couldn’t because they were either going through withdrawal or trying to find another place to score some good heroin. I’m just so happy to find someone that is interested in how I’m doing! That is just fantas…hey! Where are you going? I haven’t told you about my appointement to see the doctor about my piles yet!”