eventually they stop messaging me. it's my problem, i accept the repercussions of my laziness.
I get that. Similar things have happen to me a lot too. I mean, if you don’t have to motivation to do those things, why do them?
then i come to the conclusion that if i apply won't get the job. why is that? because i don't have the looks.
I feel this. It’s what stops me from perusing a lot of things. I feel like I’d be a fraud. Then I realize that people less qualified doing fine at that, and I feel even worse. It also makes me have high standards of quality, which makes me angry at other people when they're being mediocre at their jobs.
or because they talked about how cool socializm was and would stop their zapata spree with facts that i would read from serac or smth XD, that's not cool at all.
No one likes it when you challenge their not-very-thought-out opinions. It’s what happens when you confuse your opinions for beliefs. It's very common in small-towns. This happens a lot with political stuff, which is why people are so unreasonable and defense if you say anything that may contradict what they think. It’s literally a religion for them.
but then one day they realized i was a better musician than all of them.
and a better artist than all of them.
only after that i was accepted as cool and they started treating me nicely, sharing their food with me and so on. i also cooked pasta for them and let them stay at night in my place, so they said i was cool.
I feel this SO BAD. This kind of thing has happened to me a lot. In sociology it’s put like this: the amount of work you put on something is divided in 2 ways:
- How much you’re actually working on the thing.
- How much your working on making yourself look like you’re working
When you're only thinking about the quality of your work and not doing anything to work on selling yourself, you will be dismissed by most people. It won't always happen, but unfortunately the majority of people will judge you based on what they think they see, not on what's actually there.
I’m also a musician. So many mediocre people think they know what a good musician is, and if I don’t fit into that narrow-minded box, I’m dismissed. When I was younger, I moved a lot, each year place small towns that didn’t have many professional musicians/groups, nor did the schools support music programs.
I knew a lot more than any other student, and I played a lot better too. I never said or did anything that put someone down, but I felt a general opinion from others that I was stuck up, and that I thought I was better than I was. All because I was in a youth orchestra, and would get excited talking about classical music. I was put down a lot for simple things like asking the teachers to go over tuning. The less experiance and knowledge people have, the more defense they get over what they think they know. They judge purely by picking out things they already know, instead of actually viewing the work you’ve done for what it is. It’s not just in art, but in all professions as well. It created some toxic enviornemts for me when I was younger, and it made me really self-conscious about myself. I eventually stopped talking about my activity in music whatsoever, until I was able to audition to universities and got out of those small-minded places. I don't know how I lasted so long.
maybe sometimes i'm judgemental of people because i see in my history how they have been very judgemental of me without knowing anything about me. and i guess sometimes it's difficult to forget how things started with a person before it got better.
I can fall into this trap as well.