Differences?
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Differences?
Do you find that your friends are more like you than not? Or do you find that your friends tend to be different than you? Maybe its a mix?
Do you think we're predisposed to judge others by their differences? Or by their similarities to others we've encountered?
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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I try my best to not judge other people based on their differences, but sometimes being in a city and walking around quite often, I tend to judge which path to take based on who is on that path. But, this might be a gender thing more than differences.
When meeting new people in a safe gathering, then the judgment disappears and I tend to be welcoming to all.
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It's interesting to see the range of answers.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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I'm the same way. Even though I have friends who are the same as me, I have friends who I share things in common with too. It makes for an interesting friendship because our differences help us to learn so much from each other.MarisaRose wrote:I think it's human nature to be attracted to those that have similar interests/lifestyles as you do. However, a lot of my close friends are actually very different from me. We were drawn together by similar interests, but we definitely have a lot of differences that make our relationships so interesting. I always learn a lot from my friends and their different experiences.
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We have the same case. When I was younger, I tend to judge other people especially those who have no religion or from a different religion. Now, that I am more mature, judgment comes after discrnment.Amagine wrote:My friends tend to be the same as me when it comes to interests and things we like to do. I don't judge someone for being physically different than me. I have judged people in the past who didn't share my common interests but I no longer do that.
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I agree. It is almost innate in us to judge people especially people from other races or other ethnicities. We have either inferiority or superiority complex over the other races.Amagine wrote:I do think that a lot of people are predisposed to judge people based on appearances and personal opinions. I also think that comes from the people they were raised around.
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I'm glad that you give people a chance even though they remind you of someone else. Sometimes they may turn out to be exactly who you thought they were, sometimes they may surprise you.Gravy wrote:I have found that when a person reminds me of someone I've had negative experiences with, I tend to associate them with that. This doesn't stop me from persuing friendship (though sometimes it should). Albeit, the similarities aren't physical, so perhaps it doesn't fit this exact question, but that's one of the things that made me think of it.
It's interesting to see the range of answers.
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