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<blockquote data-quote="pleinster" data-source="post: 1665154" data-attributes="member: 221545"><p>Hi. I get where you are coming from and think you have written at length to give [USER=446003]@JShep07[/USER] some heartfelt and considered advice. I guess we just have entirely different perspectives. I know I said I was cynical and grumpy etc...but I would prefer not to change or hide anything just to stay in with "cool" people. There is nothing actually cool about judgemental immature morons who would ignore someone or not call them back etc just because they have diabetes (which is one hell of a lot of people and increasing by the minute)..these are pretty much the extreme end of the "emotionally, intellectually and spiritually feeble" beings I referred to on in my comment, and I would not only be content never to have to deal with them..I would go out of my way to avoid them. In fact, rather than entrap some vain shallow creature into my social life by telling them something about myself only once they were lulled into a false sense of mutual insecurity..and insincerity...I would rather tell people just to deliberately chase away such weak witted creeps. Still, I do get that we all, as humans, play games to an extent when it comes to presenting and representing out selves..in all walks of life; I just think that we may attract all the wrong kinds of people if we pander to the poor fibre of others. What kind of a relationship does that lead to ? I am in my fifties and too old to play games...but, very fortunately, I have an amazing wife who knows all my weaknesses and flaws and loves me regardless (unless she has been pretending very well fort the past 35 years). Friends who don't really know who you are or actually care...I can do without. Diabetes is NOT something to be embarrassed about; having friends who would bolt if you told them - that IS embarrassing. Anyway, we all differ. Everybody needs to make up their own mind in the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pleinster, post: 1665154, member: 221545"] Hi. I get where you are coming from and think you have written at length to give [USER=446003]@JShep07[/USER] some heartfelt and considered advice. I guess we just have entirely different perspectives. I know I said I was cynical and grumpy etc...but I would prefer not to change or hide anything just to stay in with "cool" people. There is nothing actually cool about judgemental immature morons who would ignore someone or not call them back etc just because they have diabetes (which is one hell of a lot of people and increasing by the minute)..these are pretty much the extreme end of the "emotionally, intellectually and spiritually feeble" beings I referred to on in my comment, and I would not only be content never to have to deal with them..I would go out of my way to avoid them. In fact, rather than entrap some vain shallow creature into my social life by telling them something about myself only once they were lulled into a false sense of mutual insecurity..and insincerity...I would rather tell people just to deliberately chase away such weak witted creeps. Still, I do get that we all, as humans, play games to an extent when it comes to presenting and representing out selves..in all walks of life; I just think that we may attract all the wrong kinds of people if we pander to the poor fibre of others. What kind of a relationship does that lead to ? I am in my fifties and too old to play games...but, very fortunately, I have an amazing wife who knows all my weaknesses and flaws and loves me regardless (unless she has been pretending very well fort the past 35 years). Friends who don't really know who you are or actually care...I can do without. Diabetes is NOT something to be embarrassed about; having friends who would bolt if you told them - that IS embarrassing. Anyway, we all differ. Everybody needs to make up their own mind in the end. [/QUOTE]
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