Nineteenth

How are there people you just automatically know you won’t like? They’re probably perfectly …well perhaps not “perfectly” because otherwise- the point is, as far as other people are concerned, this person is a good person, but your gut is telling you otherwise. That’s what it is, your gut. You just get a feeling that you probably won’t get along with this person. Something about them just stinks and already you just want to stay away from them. The only real question that lies before you is: do you give them a chance? Depending on the setting, most likely if it is a social “party” setting or “event”. But if it was you and them in some kind of “public conspiracy”, they you’d probably say no to that question and leave them alone. The question that comes from that however is: if you said yes, are you more likely to get along with them anyway, even though you had that initial gut feeling, and reversely are you least likely to get along with them because you said no. Does the attitude trump the gut feeling? I don’t know because I’m no psychology degree superstar.

I’ve always been told to keep a positive attitude, but that can be a tough thing sometimes. Also, can it be considered delusion or being too optimistic …ooo, snakeman. Oh uh, I’m just listening to music right now and the theme for snameman for megaman 3 came on. Yes, I knew it was snakeman without looking first. Chux’s wife.

Okay, back to topic: when you come across someone and have a gut instinct that you won’t like them, do you listen to that instinct or try to prove it wrong? So then, here you are proving it wrong and you go up to the person with all the positive attitude and goodness you can muster, but then you realize that you really wouldn’t get along with this person. Oh no! So then has your positive attitude been defeated because, by going up to this person in the thinking that you can be friends, or at least get along but then being proven wrong… But, let us say that you were proven wrong the other way. You don’t think you’ll get along because your gut says so and your gut is usually right, then it turns out because somehow you came across them and got talking, and you end up getting along even though you didn’t think you would. Oh, ho! Now what Sherlock?
I uh… I don’t know where I’m going with this except that I want to prove psychology degree people wrong. Okay I’m done.