Making stuff up

[Okiedokes]

Do you ever exaggerate or make up things in your head to explain the actions of someone else who may have offended you? Then you start to believe what it is in your head and get all upset? lol. I'm not sure what it is but I do this sometimes and there have been times where I was very wrong or only partically right. I keep it to myself and learn the facts before I make any actions but idk... I wonder why it is. Are people so hard to trust? I feel like it's kind of unhealthy.

 

[Chasm]

there r times i drive myself crazy tryng 2 figure out sum1 else's crazy actions
LoL
i dnt oftn do this nemore
but when i do?
look out
its bad
if i cant figr it out @ all?
i tend 2 just move the person in2 the >
"poor wretched soul"
category
ppl ARE hard 2 trust
bcuz not a lot of them r trustABLE
its just how it is

 

[Bread]

I find that honesty is the best way to go, for me. I have an iffy memory, and generally don't like lying and try to avoid doing so. Goes for lying to myself, too. *Looks in to the mirror and smirk* Hello, you dashing rogue...*Ahem* As I was saying...No good comes from self-deception.

Sadly, society seems to use deception as the oil that keeps the cogs turning, so I'm quite the fish that got stuck into an oil spill. So far, I haven't gone belly up, but honesty is a damn hard thing to keep up, especially when faced with rough, tough and undesirable truths.

 

[IgnoredOne]

I find that honesty is the best way to go, for me. I have an iffy memory, and generally don't like lying and try to avoid doing so. Goes for lying to myself, too. *Looks in to the mirror and smirk* Hello, you dashing rogue...*Ahem*

I always look at the mirror and think the same, too!

But in response to the OP's question, almost everyone does this, if not conscious then subconsciously. If someone has offended you, then well, you don't like them very much and that bias will most likely influence your future perception of them.

 

[Okiedokes]

I find that honesty is the best way to go, for me. I have an iffy memory, and generally don't like lying and try to avoid doing so. Goes for lying to myself, too. *Looks in to the mirror and smirk* Hello, you dashing rogue...*Ahem*

I always look at the mirror and think the same, too!

But in response to the OP's question, almost everyone does this, if not conscious then subconsciously. If someone has offended you, then well, you don't like them very much and that bias will most likely influence your future perception of them.

On the contrary... it's usually with people I get really close with. I get extra sensitive or something. Like I fear getting screwed over.

 

[Chasm]

when u get vulnerable

 

[IgnoredOne]

On the contrary... it's usually with people I get really close with. I get extra sensitive or something. Like I fear getting screwed over.

It might be that you've had bad experiences with people that you got close to, and after all, we do have to judge the present and the future by the past. This can lead us to be a leery.

 

[Okiedokes]

Right... yeah that is true.

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I do prefer hearing the truth. It's more so I think someones hiding something. But yeah I just keep it to myself or ask about it.