Am I so bad!!!
By ksmita
@ksmita (513)
India
February 6, 2013 4:22am CST
Hi. I am trying to remember very hard when was the last time I had a friend!! I am not rude, arrogant, show-off type person. I dont make fun of people nor I am judgemental. when i look around, i see people have their groups. I tried to join others, but they don't seem to be interested. i am making every effort to talk to people, but everything seems to fail. it is very embarassing to sit in office when people don't even look at me or say hi or bye..i feel as if I am some kind of invisible person who does not exist for others..all this is making me to hate myself more..i keep thinking may be I am so bad that people hate me so much!!!
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12 responses
@lsjapdoit (651)
• Indonesia
7 Feb 13
It takes time for people to accept and get accepted in a group. Just be yourself and do your job the best you can. You will make some friends over time :)
@buen032000 (29)
• Philippines
7 Feb 13
You are not alone. There are too many people who prefer to be alone. But if you cant make friends with someone else, well you probably know the reason why. Anyway, they too have their choices of who they want to be friends with. I myself dont have too many friends. With that I have so much time to satisfy myself with my hobbies like photography, graphics etc. Though it might be good if I have a buddy. But Im okay with it. Most of the time Im alone, Im okay with it. :)
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
6 Feb 13
I don't think you are bad at all. To me you sound like a very nice person and a person that I would like to become friends with. In your situation it is easy to interpret the other people's reaction the way that you do, and it is easy to think that there is something wrong with YOU, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Some groups are "closed" and they are not really willing to invite new people in. Not because they don't like you personally but because they just aren't open for new people. I have met groups like that and I also thought that they didn't like me, but later I discovered that they had been friends for ages and they weren't willing to invite any new people into the group. Please remember that you aren't a bad person just because they aren't willing to invite you into their group
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@kourdapya (924)
• Philippines
7 Feb 13
I don't think you are a bad person. Try to analyze yourself and examine why do people don't approach you. Don't you smile and greet people first? If you want to make many friends I think you should initiate it. You be the one to smile and greet them, ask them how they're doing. I want to recommend you a book, it's called How To win Friends and Influence by Dale Carniege, I'm sure you'd find it very useful.
I don't belive that people hate you, maybe you're just socially awkward, I used to be like that. Try that book, I'm sure you won't regret it. Good luck!
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
7 Feb 13
You are not bad, you probably just haven't found your right crowd yet. Dont worry, you're not the one at lost here, its them who is at loss for not seeing what a great person you are and could be.
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@katyapaetzold (2)
• United States
6 Feb 13
I totally can relate to you on this. Don't hate yourself, sometimes it is better to be by yourself, I have noticed now a days that honestly people are butt heads to say the least. They don't care about anyone else but themselves (this is just speaking from personal experience.) Sometimes it would be nice to have a friend? I understand. But a lot of the time its for the best. Just be yourself, if people can't accept your for who you are then you don't need them around! Love yourself ! You sound like a sweetheart who is surrounded by the wrong people
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@viju0410 (2286)
• India
6 Feb 13
Hi,
Welcome to my friend list here
First please don't feel so upset and negative towards yourself. You are a sweet person and nothing is wrong within you. So just be yourself and smiling always, let others come forward to you and offer you their friendship. In office, people are really not bothered about others and more so you should focus more on your performance, build up self confidence and be a go getter. Set your targets and work towards it, i'm sure you can soon have a lot of followers for you.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
6 Feb 13
People do not hate you. But yes you are invisible. That is clear to me. Ever thought about the fact you are too friendly, too helpfull, wait too much till it's your turn, you are trying too hard to join? Start observing those people at your office. How are they behaving? Write it down, make a study out of that. If you know, you also might see that those groups do have in common. Are these people all having self confidence? Are they really close friends? Are they for real or just fake friends? Observe! Are you sure there are not more people like you? I think there are but you just don't see them because you are focused on the ones who are sticking together like sheep in a cattle. If you know this people better by observing them ask yourself if you are able to live their lives as well. Do you want to change and hope you can belong to that group? Or do you prefer to be you and go look for people like you? BTW Stop hating yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. If you want to belong to a group/clique you have to accept to have a leader, to follow, to behave different from who you are, probably you have to learn to be rude, to shout out loud, to be present, to ask for attention, to put yourself in the centre of attention. It's the only way. Those who are shouting out loud, are rude are the leaders in this world and get all attention. It's something my (late) granny Always said. Look around you and you will see it's true. Polite people, the ones who Always wait in line, their turn it will never be. Nobody will notice them. Nobody will respect them, they will be ignored or abused.
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@maurya83 (923)
• India
7 Feb 13
Oh dear, stop thinking like this..Its time for being positive. its not that you are invisible or people hate you its you..you dont recognize yourself..remember people will respect you only when you respect yourself. You dont need to change yourself or try to cling with other people just to be involve in their so called group..instead give yourself some time, groom yourself..remember what you like, what you wanted to do for a long time..try to give your best in your job, remember your talents and give some time, try to learn something new in which you are interested..trust me this all will help you to find a new you, more confident, more happy and then you will find people will come to you wanting you as their friend :)
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@anujkumarkumar1 (721)
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7 Feb 13
Hi, ksmita,
I do not think that you are bad. It is becasuse of your negative nature only that people do not like to talk to yoU. Just try to be happy always. It is very necessary for you to keep smiling on your face always. You try to talk to the persons which are in your team .Try to joke with them . Come with interesting things like mobile with new features. Go to the persons to whom you know and tell them about your things took the feedback from persons about your things but smile should be on your face and try to be in touch with the people always. and you will see a great benefits.it is very necessary to you to be happy always.
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@theselan (74)
• Malaysia
7 Feb 13
Never hate yourself, my friend. Accept the truth and face it and the most important thing is try to figure out what is your problem, what you had done or what you have spoken? To solve this, you must let your ego away and ask any person for their help and also ask them politely and sincerely what is wrong with me and take note of what are they saying. You must prepare everything and repair it by yourself and you can make some improvement.
ALL THE BEST
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@mikmik8 (1)
• Manila, Philippines
21 Sep 13
hi! you're not bad at all because other people don't talk to you or people in the office. but i'm sure you have friend's outside your work. For people who talk less like me, it takes time to win some friend in a new environment(i'm thinking you're new in that office), were not like other's who can instantly win a friend in an hour. We make an effort, were nice that we thought others would invite us in their group, But we have different personality as them. It's not their fault either, because it's may not be obvious but we also see if we are a match in friendship, other's don't like people who are too nice but other's prefer that. But i'm positive that eventually you'll find a friend that have the same interest and personality as you.