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by ravenstine
3090 days ago
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I don't know the details of your experiences, but I've learned to not consider that kind of rejection to be a bad thing. Rather than try to please everyone and be mediocre(and unmemorable), I would polarize people so I can know which people might become real friends and weed out those who wouldn't accept me for who I am. A lot of people don't like me because I refuse to act out a personality, and I don't mind that. Most people are a waste of time. That's not to say that I never lie, but I keep my lies relatively harmless. 90% of the few lies I tell are really lies by omission, and the remaining are just exaggerations around true stories. People just enjoy a good story, and it's my job to make those stories entertaining. |
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There is a healthy balance between full conformity and full renegade. Rejection is a social signal. You shouldn’t automatically accept it. But it shouldn’t be automatically thrown out, either. “Who you are” is fluid.