When I saw Alissa two weeks ago, she told me she was dating a new guy and that everything was going well. Tonight, I saw her again and she gave me an update. He had ditched her.
I was frustrated to hear this. Alissa is bright, articulate and funny. She’s ambitious and interesting. She’s also an extremely attractive 20-year-old. But this guy had decided he wasn’t interested in her. Why?
“He said I talk about my feelings too much,” she said. “He didn’t want to hear about the problems with my family. He just wasn’t interested.”
Although I was outraged at my friend being treated this way, I can’t say I was really surprised. The culture is becoming more and more shallow, so why wouldn’t people immersed in that culture want to pretend that real people don’t have problems?
Most of the automatons who mindlessly absorb modern culture don’t want to know the real you. If you want those people to like you — the ones who surround you at work or at school or at play — hide your feelings and pretend to be happy.
Economic Man needs no heart, because love and God are dead
Who was this attractive woman? Why did her story not ring true?
Smallest ray of hope can make us feel a change we need is coming
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Being rude in public discourse is about lack of civility, not ‘free speech’
We’re neither friends nor enemies, just strangers who share the past
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When love finally dies, it’s like a fever breaks and the pain is gone