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· 1 year ago
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It is extremely hard, ask any human, because at the end of the day, most people are doing the same thing. Most humans don’t “know how to be human” or what that looks like. For some people the etiquette and mood of their time, connecting and socializing all come naturally without thinking and they live the “example” of what people in that time and place expect. For most people, we try to watch others and we start learning from an early age- instinct tells you to do this? Don’t do that! You want to speak this way? No. Use these words with these people and those words among those people… The more complex our society becomes and the more we try to distance ourselves from basic nature and instinct, the more things require practice and effort for the “average” person to follow the “rules” of what human means in their world.
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· 1 year ago
The people who tend to be the “epitome” or barometer of how others aspire are most often carefully curating each choice, deliberately attempting to convey a certain likability or kindness or strength etc. Celebrities and leaders and parents and…. People tend to wear masks and behave the way we believe others will accept or respond to. A person generally doesn’t just pick their nose because they want to- even though that is their desire and the person across from them may have the same desire- they have both learned that you do some things away from people where you aren’t judged and when people are around you behave “human.” So don’t worry alien- each day as humans struggle through work they hate or to respond to the emotions of another or to try to be a good parent or partner or whatever else- humans are just putting forward what they think that means, and it’s hard for them too. Knowing this you’d think we’d all be kinder to each other struggling to act human.