You may think you are worth the heavens but that's is just your personal opinion about yourself. That opinion doesn't carry much weight when it comes to interpersonal relationships. When there is interaction between between people, each person wishes to derive something from that interaction. Whatever it may be, a person will present his self in a way he thinks would achieve the desired effect on the other party, thus getting him what he wants.

So even if you think you have some inherant worth for doing something when others don't, it would not mean much if the person you're dealing with thinks you're a complete idiot for making such an action.

+1 This is so true

In all honesty, I have seen and hear about my friends doing such weird stuff.
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Btw @Ezra's original post,

Love isn't that simple, so is any other type of human interaction. If it was, people wouldn't have so much problems.

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Added on July 27, 2009, 10:39 amI agree. Do you know why business promote products and services by doing demonstrations and publishing success stories? Do you know why companies prefer experienced workers? People need to see the results to be convinced something really works. Talk alone is cheap. If you show the results, people will be willing to listen and follow you even if you talk crap. Why do people buy Donald Trump's books? Because he's known to be a good writer? Because the contents are good? Definitely not, he's not a writer and people know shit about what's in his book. But because he proved to be a successful businessman, people are willing to give it a look.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Jul 27 2009, 10:39 AM

If you really live life with a 'so what?' and 'I don't care attitude', I expect the real life you to be someone who doesn't have many friends, gets into problems easily and won't go far in anything that you do. Even if you are some grand person like Bill Gate, some Russian Oligarch or some Arab King, you can't CHOOSE who you interact with all the time. Occasions where you meet someone new or you have do deal with someone you don't naturally get along with will arise. Even your close friends wont be the exact same person everyday. Their mood changes and events occurs where we always have to think before we talk and say, where we step out of our comfort zone to please others. I'm amazed people can live with a me, myself and I attitude believing that if he think he's ok, the world will revolve smoothly around him.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Jul 27 2009, 03:45 PM

Dickson's reply certainly resonated with the-world-revolves-around-me attitude. I never said we should spent out life worrying about what people think about you. I think that we need to give a considerable amount of thought about what people think about us when we communicate with others, to achieve our desired gain from that interaction.

In light of you intention to make CC a better place, refrain from posting useless lines if you have nothing to say in response to what I wrote. Or, If you can't understand the point I am trying to make, I'm sorry that you have a difficulty understanding English.

This post has been edited by mumeichan: Jul 28 2009, 06:41 PM

Whether what you said hit a nerve on me, whether I have PMS and whether my emotions are raging or not doesn't change the point I made and the content of what I wrote.

It is true your post sounded to ME as you were advocating a me, myself and I attitude. So I responded to it the way I read it.
If you think that they way I read it wasn't the way you intended it to mean, you could have easily quoted me and explained calmly how I got it wrong.
Of course, not everytime everyone understands what you say they way you want them to the first time you say it. There is no limit to the number of replies you can post in this thread, so please use this liberty to patiently explain your points instead of merely accusing people of being incapable of understanding you and telling them they have PMS.

Let me give you an example of a good response
See, noob13 explained to me that I have misunderstood your post and told me why. That at least gives me a chance to explain why I posted what I did.