Friday, June 12, 2009

Some Thoughts...

What is this about that I miss an opportunity to get to know a new person? What makes me want to keep myself busy enough reading a camera manual just to avoid talking to a person sitting inches from me? And we are forced to share this long, long flight together sitting next to each other. We are not sleepy; we have just the flight shopping magazine to read or left to our own devices. Probably, pretend to be sleeping (it sure works). But still we will not turn to the other person and exchange a warm “HI”. I remember the last time I had to fly alone and how fun the flight was because of the stranger who sat next to me. We talked about our education, profession, and travels and felt so much richer having taken this opportunity to converse. We do not feel the need to exchange names and numbers because we feel we are better friends because of the connection we have made already nothing more is needed. Then the very next moment I am shut to the world, do not want to be a part of any group and prefer being alone all time surrounded by potential friends.

There are days when I love everyone I come across, and everyone seems to adore and compliment me on how cool and friendly I am, and then there are times when I just think that I am above everyone and everything around me. I am not sure how long I have been going through this temperamental tidal but it has been a while since I began to notice my attitude towards certain people at particular times. And don’t ask me to put labels because I do not think I will be able to list any typecasting here. It just happens.

So I wonder what is it that some people become my friends the moment we share the same space. And with some there is such discomfort that even years of circling the same contacts and sharing common friend circles we never get around to be able to carry a conversation on our own.

And the weirdest part of all this is that sometimes this may happen simultaneously. I am friendly to one and covertly hostile to another. Well, I have been on both sides of this story so I guess I may claim to understand how it may feel. Also I have seen that sometimes I don’t get along with people who may actually share more than one common interests or traits with me.

Iwonder and I wonder and some more…

4 comments:

Piper .. said...

hmm..well I for one am exactly the kind of person you have described - the one who wouldnt care to say a casual hi to the person sitting next to me on a flight! :) Not a conscious choice(or may be it is!). Just that I`m almost always too edgy when I`m flying. More so because I almost always have been flying alone. No conscious decision to shut out the world or anything, but it just almost happens that way... hmmm food for thought though.

Odessa said...

i do that too. i don't thing there's anything wrong with it, i feel like talking to strangers really depends on the state that i am in.

Spontaneous Mini said...

@Piper – Good to see you back. I mean to email you. Its pending :- )
I have an ambivalent personality. No one knows when this talker turns an introvert!

@ Odessa- Yup, the state of mind, also for me it’s the vibes I feel.

D said...

I blame it on the vibes.