Annoyed

I'm very annoyed right now by many things. Some of them small, some of them big. Why is it that people can't be truthful and upfront with others? It would really make the world a better and easier place to live in. I really never bought into that European idea too much that Americans as a whole are fake. A lot of Europeans think that we are fake, we ask questions to feign interest (ie, how are you) and that we're disingenuous. Yea, I used to think that it was nice to have some of that, niceties are nice. They are a crutch, when you have nothing else to talk about, you can talk about that, how someone is, how they like the weather. But after my expereiences of the last year, I will have to say that some Americans take it too far. They worry too much about being nice and being perceived as nice and being the "good guy". I think it might be in part due to youth, that thing inside of you when you are young that makes you yearn for acceptance. If you're the "good guy" then everyone is bound to like you, right? And I'm going to say that it's also in part due to that person's inability to stand up for himself. If you're always wanting to be the "good guy" and everyone to like you, then you don't have self confidence, you're looking for your confidence in the affirmation of others liking you. My lord, save me from the youth, stupid, inexperienced and spineless of the world. I do not suffer fools gladly.

The next thing that is annoying me, why are there so many people declaring things on IM away messages or profiles that just don't have to be there. Like declarations of love, really now, that's romantic, someone in cyberspace says that they love me. Awwww. NO. I don't need to know, you don't have to tell everyone about it so publically. I think it falls under the heading of "if I say it enough and enough people believe it, then it's true." Guess what, that's not how truth works. If you've got to let everyone around you know that you love someone by putting it on IM, then you're not letting that person know in a way that doesn't involve an open declaration or the internet. Find some other way to declare your love. Keep me and the rest of the internet out of it. I don't want to affirm your love.