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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2178300" data-attributes="member: 2067">Loud and clear now:HOBBIES ARE NOT LIFESTYLE CHOICES What works for others works for you, too. What's stopping you from engaging someone in conversation about what they care about? What's stopping you from presenting yourself in better clothes and better hygine for someone else? Why be this selfish? What does it get you?If you're happy, fine. But if you're not, maybe some gentle bowing to the masses will help you to be so.People hide their true natures behind a veneer of social norms. It's the only reason we don't kill each other for being lying, cheating, manipulative little twicks. Refusing to is not a point of assertive personality, it's a point of being a selfish person who would rather do things for his own benefit that someone else's.Again, there's nothing inherently flawed with that, if you're content living that life. But if you're not, maybe you could start taking other people's thoughts and ideas into account once in a while. Maybe you could develop a working basic knowledge of a sport or four, or of how stocks work. That doens't change YOU, that changes how you are seen by others, and there is a dramatic difference. How you are seen by others is always intentionally deceptive people people, in general, don't want to see what you're really like.Those who do want to see what you're really like...those people you game with, those people who find your own ideas interesting...those are the people you can develop friendships and relationships with, regardless of their conversation about stocks and sports. Sooner or later, maybe a girl will come a long who you can stink with. I know I've dated some girls who were quite a bit less hygenic than I...er, in fact, all of them...wow...either I'm a bit obessive about cleaning or I've dated some pretty hardcore slobs...Er, anyway, you can either stop being selfish, or stop giving half a turd about what other people say. Or more likely, a combo of both. This Tuff Luv brought to you by my inner Reapersaurus (how's THAT for old school!)</blockquote>

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