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Avoiding people

  • 23-04-2015 1:07pm
    #1
    Fakman87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone else has this issue.

    If i see people I vaguely know or people who are distant acquaintances in public I almost always try to pretend I didn't see them.

    I hate doing it but it's almost an automatic reaction.


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  • #2
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I used to do it too but I felt like a fraud so now I just run over, shake their hand vigorously and ask them how they are. Much better.


  • #3
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Fakman87.... another for my ignore list.


  • #4
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Think about what it is you're afraid of happening if you do talk to them.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Damnit. You all ruined it. I was hoping nobody would reply, thus ironically avoiding the OP.


  • #6
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Fakman87 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone else has this issue.

    If i see people I vaguely know or people who are distant acquaintances in public I almost always try to pretend I didn't see them.

    I hate doing it but it's almost an automatic reaction.

    I know what you mean OP, whenever I see you coming I always pretend I didnt see you :pac: :pac: :pac:


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  • #7
    TheBrinch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭TheBrinch


    Fakman87 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone else has this issue.

    If i see people I vaguely know or people who are distant acquaintances in public I almost always try to pretend I didn't see them.

    I hate doing it but it's almost an automatic reaction.

    I do the same thing but I always re-assure myself by thinking: 'they know me too, why dont they say hello?' followed by a lot a self loathing.


  • #8
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Fakman87 wrote: »
    I almost always try to pretend I didn't see them.

    I hate doing it..

    Yeah, often did it. Last time was when I was passing through where I grew up and seen a school mate of mine walking across the road holding a McDonald's bag and so I figured I'd leave him to his grub, as I was heading to the cinema anyway, be best to catch up later when we both have more time. Had lost touch with most of those I hung around with in my teens and 20s and so it was for sure something I wanted to get around to doing.

    Then one day I noticed that a film was showing in the Lighthouse which we both used to love (Withnail & I) and so thought then would be a great time to get in touch and maybe see if he'd go along. So went on to his Facebook page to send him a message (had sent a few back and forth to each other over the years reminiscing) only to see that he had died suddenly just a few months before. Was his anniversary on the 13th just gone and I drove out and put flowers on his grave. All I could think of though is how much I wish I could back to that day I'd seen him and call out to him.

    I vowed since that whenever I see someone I know again that I haven't seen in awhile, I'll stop. Life's too short and unpredictable to just assume a person will be around whenever it is that I decide it would be a more convenient time for me to say hello.


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