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Hi
I was listening to music and i thought about people.
Are they nice because they are good people.
or are they nice because they need to be accepted
I think we all like to be liked by people.
Does it matter that our views are different.
or should we conform.
mm im a person> i hpoe that other peoples views don't spoil mine as an individualist. what do you think.
life is to enjoy.
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jack
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Davide
sorry about any spelling mistakes or what ever
Hi i do Know its David
yaki da my Friend.
life is to enjoy.
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JimB
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I have been a social maverick most, if not all, of my life. Until I was nine I had a crossed eye which set me apart. As a teen I was strongly attracted to the hippy movement in northern California. I had facial hair when it was frowned upon and a pierced ear when it was uncommon. I relate these items to illustrate that I have never felt a strong need to be accepted; to the contrary, I've always strove to be an individualist.
I strive to be a nice person, the best person that I can be, because I believe that is what we are here for. I am appalled at my fellow man's ability to be cruel and evil. He is capable of torture and killing simply for pleasure; sometimes towards or against even his own children.
For me it comes down to the difference between right and wrong; being nice, being the best that I can be is what is right.
JimB
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Dear Jack,
I, too, hope I'm nice. I like to be kind to people and feel bad if they seem to be in pain. But how do you tell why I'm like that? And the question ought to be more complicated because you might be asking what my motives are in being nice or you might be asking what it was in my upbringing or heredity that made me nice. (If I am, I mean!)
I don't think I do it because I want to be liked. I do, of course, but I'm nice to people who I'm indifferent to in other respects. I've always been liable to be affectionate. I remember lying on the grass in Farthing Down near Coulsdon in Surrey with my head on Joe Critchlow's stomach and rolling my head to stroke his stomach just because it was nice. Forty years later I discovered that he was gay and was turned on by it. I had no idea at the time (and I would have welcomed a partner). John Cox (the great opera producer) told me about it and that it was unusual for people to be uninhibitedly affectionate in those days.
I've lost touch with Joe but would like to talk to him again.
Love,
Anthony
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