Quote: Using big words, but making not a lick of
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So the point of the OP is basically that people don't know what the word smart means.
Understandable if you think about it, for a cesspool society where every man's 3rd cousin thinks his neighbor is an
idiot, it's only natural for people to label everything as smart. I wouldn't get too concerned about school
either as long as you have a game plan for what you want to do.
Idk about the whole encounter and impact part but I met practically everyone IRL who made
some difference in my life. Traveled to the other end of the states, and other end of the world to meet them. Would give
you numbers but looking at how much it cost me in total would ruin the evening (lol). Sadly you don't find friends
like this these days and I haven't found anyone interesting yet since then, but I look for different things in
people.
Hopefully your new friend isn't one of those people who likes to tell you they know everything about you (lol), the
toughest part of encounters on the net is mostly how every person doesn't know context of what you
say.
I actually did a small test the other day with everyone in Skype, telling them they
can't see past what I put infront of them and out of 30 people, 22 implied I lied about something/they didn't
know if they could confirm anything I told them. Draws very clear picture of attitude people generally keep when
online!
The only recent happening that involves people in MT is when a person I knew needed help
from another friend of mine so I invited them to a convo together, MT person ended up getting told by friend that she
was going to sleep instead but actually she sat in convo room for around 10 mins and didn't leave. I tried to push
for MT friend to ask question quickly but instead didn't, afterward got told I was being an asshole by her when
convo ended. I was told by MT friend that I needed to ask if my other friend was free first before inviting, but MT
friend never questioned why she sat in the Convo room for 10 mins even after saying she was sleeping, she actually
didn't leave until MT friend kept prompting for her to sleep.
Not the most emotional or compelling story, but paint a picture of what the moral of the story is.
To me the only feelings I got is that people usually not aware of situation well enough, but not my loss so it
didn't affect me.
Another happening but doesn't involve anyone from MT was that I told a person that I
could get her help with publishing her paper she's writing since I know a person who has PhD in her course. Of
course a PhD can help you with your paper right? Not affiliated with your Uni after all, outside source, who would know?
But she told me instead that she rather ask someone else or she wanted to find other people instead.
To me, problem is I just gave her a person to talk to and saved her trouble of going out to find one, don't
understand why she didn't just say ok and taken the extra opinion since it's still an opinion from someone who
knows the course like the back of the hand.
People need too many safety nets these days like 'it's alright I got it' - 'you gave me a solution i
was looking for but its alright i'll find another one'. Makes me wonder if they are next to be served in line,
they say 'no it's ok' and walk to back of the line so the 300 people behind them can be served
first.
Many examples actually, but I won't write all of them since only these 2 answer your
situation. I wouldn't say strangers opinions don't matter all the time but it depends what your stranger does
and who the stranger really is. Out of the 4 people involved in these 2 situations, only 1 I never met IRL, but the crux
of both examples generally display the same issue but in different degree.
Can't answer last question since I met whoever I wanted to meet, and I believe people
who you want to meet on a personal level shouldn't be common people or they should have something to offer you in
any way.