For all those who labeled me a misanthrope after my post about retail greeters, I wanted you to know that I actually had quite a nice conversation with the woman who rang up my purchases at Borders today. We were talking about American Idol, since I was buying, among other things, the new Kelly Clarkson CD (who are you to judge me? :-). I enjoyed the interaction because she seemed genuinely nice, and not talking to me as part of some retail training strategy. So maybe I’m not an irredeemable hater of humanity after all.
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Adam…
Well I was going to make horrible fun of you for the cd purchase, but I am the one who is addicted to Buffy. I’ll call it even.
See, I admit these embarrassing things about myself for everyone’s entertainment. I’m selfless that way.
I really sympathize with that feeling towards people though. It is all an act most of the time. I just don’t see where people think everyone is always being genuine.
I think the answer is to be genuine one’s self and not worry about reciprocity from others. If they’re not being geniuine, that’s they’re problem. I like myself better when I am genunie.
The problem is that some people’s genuine self is an asshole. God knows I seem to run into quite a few of them. In most cases, I’m all for a little layer of artifice – it’s what civilization is all about.