[ SECRET POST #2069 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2069 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The City of Dreaming Books]


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[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]


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Notes:

Important: I'm really sorry about this, but I accidentally clicked the wrong thing and deleted the submission post from last week instead of saving it. Managed to save the first page (25) of secrets, but the rest (a bit over 100) are gone.

If you submitted something last week (Aug 26-Sept 1), please resubmit it here and it will still go up this week.

The submissions post for next week is linked below as usual.

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #296.
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Comments

Re: Friendly = creepy?

[omorka]

Creepy? Not from your description, no. Annoying, possibly, especially if the other person can't get a word in edgewise or really, really wants to disengage from the conversation and you're not giving them the space to do that, but probably not creepy. Personally, I HATE it when strangers try to talk to me, and being overfriendly and ignoring my attempts to end the conversation tends to make me want to punch people in the solar plexus to make them shut up, but that's not the same as being all up in my personal space, trying to get personal information out of me, or making sexually inappropriate comments, which would be my boundary for "creepy."

Re: Friendly = creepy?

[(Anonymous)]

That makes sense, true. But how am I supposed to get to know someone if they don't want to talk to me at all? Or don't like strangers talking to them? I know most people don't mind (and I don't try to purposefully annoy them), but just curious about your case.

Sorry if I sound offensive.

Re: Friendly = creepy?

[(Anonymous)]

But how am I supposed to get to know someone if they don't want to talk to me at all? Or don't like strangers talking to them?

Try someone else?

Re: Friendly = creepy?

[omorka]

Maybe it's just me, but the idea that you're "supposed to" be able to get to know someone that you've never met before and don't have any friends or institutions in common with seems kind of self-centered. Maybe they have as many friends as they can handle at the moment and don't want the emotional investment and responsibility of taking on another one right now. Maybe they're an introvert, and dealing with other people at all takes energy, ones they don't know doubly so, and they just don't have the resources to spare right then. Why would you want to force yourself on them?

I mean, it's obviously different if you're in the same class together, or you're co-workers, or if you have friends in common who introduce you, although that last is still kind of stressful for me. But real strangers? The immediate stress and energy drain is really uncomfortable for me, and if someone doesn't pick up on that and disengage, especially after I've tried to politely disengage once or twice, then they're probably not a person who's going to be healthy for me to have as a permanent fixture in my life, anyway.

Re: Friendly = creepy?

[citrinesunset]

Some people just aren't comfortable interacting closely with strangers, and prefer to get to know people though shared interests/activities. In that case, I think you just need to accept that great interaction won't happen every time.

I don't think a little bit of interaction with strangers is a bad thing. Personally, I enjoy it sometimes. It can be fun to strike up a conversation unexpectedly. But while there's always the possibility of forming a real friendship this way, it often doesn't go anywhere. I think you need to pay attention to the cues the other person is giving you. If they're interacting a lot and seem interested, then by all means keep going! But otherwise, try to leave a little space for things to end gracefully if they need to.