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Why are people afraid to be them fucking selves?

Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
It's so annoying. Not admitting to liking this or that, so they bash it. But deep down they know the truth.
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    Example?
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    i've never been afraid to be myself... that's probably why I turn a lot of people off. :?
    I'm crazy and I don't hide it :D
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    i've never been afraid to be myself... that's probably why I turn a lot of people off. :?
    I'm crazy and I don't hide it :D

    Ain't that the truth....... :lol:
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,773
    i yam what i yam.............

    im the same idiot in person.....
    that i am on this board.................................................
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    sometimes it takes people a bit longer to get comfortable in their own skin.
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  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    i yam what i yam.............

    im the same idiot in person.....
    that i am on this board.................................................

    Really???

    You strike me as a guy who likes to fuck around a lot on the board, but in person is just a real nice regular guy!

    Maybe next time the boys hit Chicago I can find out for myself! :lol:
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    i yam what i yam.............

    im the same idiot in person.....
    that i am on this board.................................................

    Really???

    You strike me as a guy who likes to fuck around a lot on the board, but in person is just a real nice regular guy!

    Maybe next time the boys hit Chicago I can find out for myself! :lol:
    are you hitting on him!!?? :lol:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    i yam what i yam.............

    im the same idiot in person.....
    that i am on this board.................................................

    Really???

    You strike me as a guy who likes to fuck around a lot on the board, but in person is just a real nice regular guy!

    Maybe next time the boys hit Chicago I can find out for myself! :lol:
    are you hitting on him!!?? :lol:

    Wouldn't you like to know? ;)
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    i yam what i yam.............

    im the same idiot in person.....
    that i am on this board.................................................

    Really???

    You strike me as a guy who likes to fuck around a lot on the board, but in person is just a real nice regular guy!

    Maybe next time the boys hit Chicago I can find out for myself! :lol:

    Watch out! He'll make you drink 148 bud lights in one sitting. :mrgreen:
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  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    South of Seattle wrote:
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    i yam what i yam.............

    im the same idiot in person.....
    that i am on this board.................................................

    Really???

    You strike me as a guy who likes to fuck around a lot on the board, but in person is just a real nice regular guy!

    Maybe next time the boys hit Chicago I can find out for myself! :lol:

    Watch out! He'll make you drink 148 bud lights in one sitting. :mrgreen:

    Bud light? FUCK THAT!!!!!

    I'll drink me some beers, but not any of that light shit!
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    When they're only a dollar, you don't complain. :lol:
    NERDS!
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    South of Seattle wrote:
    When they're only a dollar, you don't complain. :lol:

    Wait.....only 1 dollar??? Man, maybe I have this drinking thing all messed up! :lol:
  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    I'm never afraid to be myself. I am who I am...if you don't like it, fuck off!

    I find people who are afraid very sad....
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  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    the times when I would not be myself are very few.

    there are moments when I absolutely must get along with some people so sometimes I have to "push back" some of my delightful qualities. :lol:

    but other than that, I'm very much being me. on message boards and real life.
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • OceansJennyOceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,394
    Answer: because they don't like who they are. Or, they are afraid of what other people will think.
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    ahh now, give people a break, some people need time to get comfortable with themselves.

    at first i thought the thread title said "why are people afraid to fuck themselves?" ...i have to admit im kinda disappointed!
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    That's right Wendy, we all wear masks, metaphorically speaking.
  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    JordyWordy wrote:
    ahh now, give people a break, some people need time to get comfortable with themselves.

    at first i thought the thread title said "why are people afraid to fuck themselves?" ...i have to admit im kinda disappointed!
    I don't think anyone's afraid of that :P
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    JordyWordy wrote:
    ahh now, give people a break, some people need time to get comfortable with themselves.

    at first i thought the thread title said "why are people afraid to fuck themselves?" ...i have to admit im kinda disappointed!
    I don't think anyone's afraid of that :P

    haha! not me anyway!
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    soulsinging wrote:
    That's right Wendy, we all wear masks, metaphorically speaking.

    Wow. A quote from a ridiculously stupid, yet funny movie that I haven't heard for a long time.

    Thanks for making me laugh my ass off!
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  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,613
    because people don't like be rejected and often feel if they are themselves they will be rejected. this is a trait in the younger generation because grade school and high school are for conformists. As you grow older I think most people realize that the teen bs of acting like others want you to is crap and unneeded. a lot of people don't like or trust themselves. it took me a long time to truly like myself but once I became happy with myself I stopped caring what others thought of me.
  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    JordyWordy wrote:
    ahh now, give people a break, some people need time to get comfortable with themselves.

    at first i thought the thread title said "why are people afraid to fuck themselves?" ...i have to admit im kinda disappointed!
    I don't think anyone's afraid of that :P

    I don't know.. I'd bet there are definitely people who are afraid of that.. :?
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    dcfaithful wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    That's right Wendy, we all wear masks, metaphorically speaking.

    Wow. A quote from a ridiculously stupid, yet funny movie that I haven't heard for a long time.

    Thanks for making me laugh my ass off!

    My pleasure. I'm not sure how I ever remembered that, and I'm even less sure that that's a good thing, but fuck it eh?
  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    soulsinging wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    That's right Wendy, we all wear masks, metaphorically speaking.

    Wow. A quote from a ridiculously stupid, yet funny movie that I haven't heard for a long time.

    Thanks for making me laugh my ass off!

    My pleasure. I'm not sure how I ever remembered that, and I'm even less sure that that's a good thing, but fuck it eh?

    damn straight if thats who you are..a guy who likes random quotes, then go for it. Just be your fucking self man!

    im gona go out and be my fucking self tonight, get hammered, possibly to an ignorant extent, maybe even get a little sleazy...i cant wait. and im not afraid. not afraid even an ickle icklle bit.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    JordyWordy wrote:
    damn straight if thats who you are..a guy who likes random quotes, then go for it. Just be your fucking self man!

    im gona go out and be my fucking self tonight, get hammered, possibly to an ignorant extent, maybe even get a little sleazy...i cant wait. and im not afraid. not afraid even an ickle icklle bit.

    “I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad a turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi. Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself."
    - Mitch Hedberg
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I'm myself and don't pretend to be anything I'm not. Sometimes that's good and sometimes it's bad. Oh well.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    soulsinging wrote:
    JordyWordy wrote:
    damn straight if thats who you are..a guy who likes random quotes, then go for it. Just be your fucking self man!

    im gona go out and be my fucking self tonight, get hammered, possibly to an ignorant extent, maybe even get a little sleazy...i cant wait. and im not afraid. not afraid even an ickle icklle bit.

    “I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad a turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi. Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself."
    - Mitch Hedberg

    :lol: that guy was such a hero, god love him.
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  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    It's so annoying. Not admitting to liking this or that, so they bash it. But deep down they know the truth.


    Well, I'll tell you why I personally cannot be myself (at work). I am the only conservative in a workplace full of liberals. They hate Republicans with a passion and if I were to tell them that I didn't vote for Obama, I would honestly, most likely lose my job. These "open-minded" individuals would find a reason to fire me, but of course they would already hate me, so I probably would be glad to leave at that point.
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    It's so annoying. Not admitting to liking this or that, so they bash it. But deep down they know the truth.


    Well, I'll tell you why I personally cannot be myself (at work). I am the only conservative in a workplace full of liberals. They hate Republicans with a passion and if I were to tell them that I didn't vote for Obama, I would honestly, most likely lose my job. These "open-minded" individuals would find a reason to fire me, but of course they would already hate me, so I probably would be glad to leave at that point.

    Ah, well work is a different story. Politics and religion are hot button issues and it's best not to discuss those topics your job. I don't think that's necessarily acting like someone your not.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • The ChampThe Champ Posts: 4,063
    Because it's easier to be someone else..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
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