Today I was talking to Chris and he was saying he doesn’t understand how there are times that I can’t be myself around people but and I realized that I’m doing the same thing I’m getting mad about with other people

Like I’m getting mad because people don’t take the chance to get to know me and I feel like because they don’t reach out it’s because they think that I’m not shit so then I’m like wow this person is shit they don’t deserve my time or the opportunity to see me as I am

I’m perpetuating the situation

In my sociology book there was a quote from Harriet Martineau

“The traveler must not generalize on the spot…Natural philosophers do not dream of generalizing with any such speed as that used by the observers of men..the geologist and chemist make a large collection of particular appearances before they commit themselves to propound a principle drawn from them through their subject matter is far less diversified than the human subject, and nothing of so much importance as human emotions, - love and dislike, reverence and contempt, depends on their judgement.” (Martineau 1838: How to Observe Morals and Manners 18-19)