I had a recent conversation with a friend who was telling me all about how another person thought this and that about me, and came to all kinds of wild conclusions about who I am and what I care about. I'm generally not one to care about what people think of me, but I find it disturbing that anyone would care at all. I'm really not that interesting. And the scary thing is, it seems most people do this.
Let me start by saying that I spend almost no time thinking about other people in the context of what they might be about or what they do. I don't care. Close friends, I mean the people I really care about, yes, I do think about them, but primarily in ways that I can help them. Beyond that, I don't have the bandwidth to devote to such lines of thought.
But what's with people that spend time talking shit about other people they don't really know? That kind of thing gets back to me from time to time, and it usually has something to do with me and CosaterBuzz and what a dick I am or something like that. They seem to think it's the center of my life and all I do. If you know me, you know it's probably not even in the top 10 list of things that I care most about.
And this got me to thinking... are other people one-dimensional? By that I mean, do they not have a broad perspective about what life is all about? I'm not talking about how many hobbies or interests they have, because I'll be the first to say I'd rather do two or three things really well than a lot of things average. But do they see life as this large-scale, diverse, rich experience? I do, and maybe that's why I don't spend much time thinking about or talking about other people.
I don't know. That all sounds kind of vague, but maybe you know what I'm talking about, or maybe you do it yourself. It just strikes me as wild that people would come up with this detailed and wholly speculative profile of me, when I can't even do that about myself despite having access to, well, my life!