Pretend..
This is a game that I have not been able to master as well as others…(I totally kick ass in Monopoly!)
I don’t understand the rules and can’t seem to comprehend the logic that surrounds this game.
Pretend:-
To appear falsely, deceive, feign: to pretend to go to sleep. To display a fake representation of oneself to others in order to be seen as favourable to another person/people, normally the person/people who are the recipients of the faked pleasantries are of the foe category of life.
The reason for playing this game is yet to be determined.
Players 1+ (best played if by 2 or more)
It fascinates me how people who OBVIOUSLY dislike each other can pretend to like each other and continue to display a facade of friendliness and then go and speak kak about each other when the others back is turned.
I struggle with this. If I don’t like you, I say so or even better, I don’t speak to you. I do not “play nice” and this has in turn left me with very few friends, but those I do have, are genuine. They are the gems in my life, I will polish them up and put them in pretty boxes and never ever will I speak kak about them or turn my back on them.
My mom tried to teach me how to play this game because she felt that I needed to be slightly more polite to people who I personally thought were assholes (because they behaved like assholes..) but others played pretend with them due to their status or standing. I feel no such love. She eventually gave up and just tried to bribe some friends for me with milktarts..
So here I am, in a position where once again I faced with a situation of either playing the game with someone with the alternative being somewhat awkward…
Am I going to be able to do this? Will my face and body give me away? Will I be able to bite my tongue in moments of extreme mental exhaustion?
Do I really want to play? No.. but we don’t always get what we want in life and sometimes we need to take one for them team..do we??
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I don’t play nice either. I have a pair of eyes that don’t lie.
.-= Gilz´s last blog ..1 December 2009 is World Aids Day =-.
Life is a game, play the game, enjoy the game and sometimes in any game you have to buckle down and put up with being nice to assholes….
I find the pretending exhausting but I do it every day. I am a pretender
.-= Po´s last blog ..The heat of love =-.
Don’t pretend
It’ll take away from the awesomeness that is you. You not pretending makes you like…ooo, like House. You’re like totally almost like my hero 
.-= Tara´s last blog ..The end of a love affair =-.
“I struggle with this. If I don’t like you, I say so or even better, I don’t speak to you.”
In my book that makes you an tactless asshole.
“It fascinates me how people who OBVIOUSLY dislike each other can pretend to like each other and continue to display a facade of friendliness and then go and speak kak about each other when the others back is turned.”
It’s called “being polite”.
lize – how is it “being polite” if you are talking kak and being disrespectful behind their backs?
I prefer to politely walk away and get on with minding my own business..
talking kak and being disrespectful behind their backs isn’t being polite. I’m talking about telling them in their face you don’t like them or simply not speaking to them.
lize – perhaps I am this tactless asshole you call me, perhaps I am not as polite as I could be.. But when I am in the company of a nasty ugly person and they say horrible things. I do not simply smile and nod .. I would most probably tell them to not speak to me and walk away.. If someone (acquaintances included) come to me with some or other skinner story, I extract myself and leave.. I do not have time for these games people play. They must learn to be polite.. then perhaps I will give it a more concerted effort..
I don’t get it either… and it bites me in the butt at work on a regular basis because I am perceived as having an “attitude problem”. I don’t talk crap about people- I just don’t like talking to them!
.-= Angel´s last blog ..And The Winner Is… =-.