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- MBTI
- INFPishy
Do you feel pressure to be interesting and entertaining? How do you respond? What strategies do you use to handle it?
There is a strong need today from culture for everyone to prove they are interesting in order to get any kind of attention. There is more pressure to feel that you need to be interesting or entertaining enough or smart enough to hold someone's interest. It's a part of the belief that everyone should, in some way, have to prove their worthiness in order to deserve attention before they get it. (sorry, tend to be repetitive)
What strikes me as more interesting, is that, when you put all this effort into making someone interested and get their attention, you may've created an unrealistic image of yourself, leading to unrealistic expectations about what you're going to be like once you get to know them and be with them.
Now, this doesn't mean, trying to impress or gain someone's interest or attention is bad, but it seems there is an unrealistic amount of pressure to be entertaining just to be seen as worthy.
Any thoughts?
There is a strong need today from culture for everyone to prove they are interesting in order to get any kind of attention. There is more pressure to feel that you need to be interesting or entertaining enough or smart enough to hold someone's interest. It's a part of the belief that everyone should, in some way, have to prove their worthiness in order to deserve attention before they get it. (sorry, tend to be repetitive)
What strikes me as more interesting, is that, when you put all this effort into making someone interested and get their attention, you may've created an unrealistic image of yourself, leading to unrealistic expectations about what you're going to be like once you get to know them and be with them.
Now, this doesn't mean, trying to impress or gain someone's interest or attention is bad, but it seems there is an unrealistic amount of pressure to be entertaining just to be seen as worthy.
Any thoughts?