At the 107th session...
"Have you tried NOT being crazy?"

"Look if I give you some crack will you stop whining about your addictive personality?"
Yeah maybe IT was a better course.
Then again the number of cute girls in my writing classes have made me wonder if I picked the wrong major

This is primarily why I majored in literature as an undergrad. Terrible, terrible choice. I always tell people not to major in the Liberal ArtsI probably wouldn't have had to bother getting a Master's Degree (and I'm working on another two) if I stuck with Comp Sci.

Yeah I know I'd never do a full degree in it but there's NO girls in IT at all. When I started the minor subject last semester I went from zero girls to a hell of a lot of them, took some adapting to. Shame they all seem to be attached because there's some damned cute ones in there...

lol i think you've misunderstood what i was saying.
If i would be a shrink , and a patient keeps rabbling about : i'm going to kill miself , life has no meaning , im gonna hang myself , ... .
well if he does that a lot it would get on my nerves enourmesly.
so i wouldn't fit the profilr of a shrink cuz i would want him to kill himself instead of keeping whining about it.

I'm not so sure. From the sound of it, most of my socialising headaches could be solved if only I was like you.
I can't approach people like you do. When I socialise, I'm social. I try to pay attention, I try to be nice, open, honest and obedient. I try not to be pushy or assertive or aggressive. Because with very few exceptions, that's how I'd like others to approach me. It's also simply the kind of person I am. I don't mean I'll necessarily jump out a window if someone asks me to, but.. Actually, I have done that. But I was really drunk, so it doesn't count. Much. I think. The point is that I'm really, really easy to manipulate, take advantage of, or otherwise use. And scarily many people do it.
It wouldn't be a big problem if I knew how to extricate myself from such situations. But I don't know how to do that. It probably sounds strange, but it makes me extremely uncomfortable just to think about trying. Maybe there's something deeply wrong with me or something, but I can't fail people or their expectations of me, just because doing so would be to my advantage. Not even when people are being dangerously unreasonable. Generally, it simply doesn't happen unless someone takes pity on me and gets me out of whatever I have gotten into.
I have often wished I could be a hermit, but unfortunately I crave other people like a dopefiend craves crack. Not because I get bored in my own company, in any sense. It is very difficult to bore me. But because. Hmm. I don't know how to express myself exactly. Because I'm too curious, or something. To me, other people are amazing and extremely interesting. Even when they make me feel bad or create problems for me. I think I'd have to be dead to stay a hermit for more than a day or so.
I packed my stuff and went to India to find a job back when I was younger than you are, largely because I felt like an endangered species. Being considered a foreigner tends to make people treat me like something approaching human, so for years and years I'd basically pack my stuff and go far away as soon as people got past me being a foreigner.
As implied earlier, I've settled down now and count myself extraordinarily lucky in that regard. My much better half doesn't mind rescuing me when I'm in need of it, and understands how. I have also managed to find few friends I can rely on. I know you probably can't understand what that means, but to me having that 'safety net' is a bigger relief than it was to get out of southern Turkey in '99 (which was thought to be a special IED delivery zone for foreigners at the time).
Still, I can't always rely on someone to look out for me, and even with situational constraints (like work and such) moderating people, I often need it. I really wish it wasn't so. But I can't do like you do, and I suppose it's a little bit unreasonable to expect everyone else to change for me, when I can't change myself.
It really is, haha. It's also a little scary. I could have explained myself better earlier, for example, but I didn't quite have the nerve..
As for opposites, they do kind of attract. It's just that there's both complimentary opposites, and mutually exclusive ones.
I'd respond to more of you, but my keyboard is threatening to go on strike if I don't stop typing.

Hehe you omit one novel and another rises in its place...
I definitely know the benefits of genuine friends, to me 6 friends (which is how many I have and only 2 of those are local) are worth infinitely more than 100 mates
Thats what I've always said, complimentary differences are the best, they give you something to talk about and new things to do rather that everything being "Here's my opinion" "I agree" followed by hours of silence

As i stated before theres no such thing as smart people.
Only dumb people. They've scientifically recorded that a human person uses about 15% of it's brain capacity. Extra oridnairy people use 17% :s.
so as i stated before there's dumb people and dumb people just smart enough to take advantage of other dumb people.
CRAP , NOW I'M THINKING ABOUT THIS!!! If the scientists have a brain of 17% then there's87% chance that their research isn't correct.
So let's forget about this for a moment now :p
The reason is started with this was that i to was quite naive , influencial , easily mislead and taken advantage off.
Reason being you are craving for a little support , understanding , compassion.
You are more likely to believe the crap they tell ya if you are having a lot of trouble.
"If you rob 6 grannies of their purses and give all the money to use , you can be my friend."
what i did was take time to contemplate a bit. I stayed home more often and try to figure myself out. Basiccly i learned to appreciate who i am. I can't be friends with 8billion people , not with the half of it not even 1.000.000th.
That's when i realised that i didn't have to try to keep friends with everybody. If they didn't like me for who i am, screw em. Now i'm very happy with the few friends i have.
I'm also open to new people i met but the moment they become agressif , dominant or something i recognize from earlier , then i'm really not interested anymore.
The only thing i never turn my back on is discussions , oooooo i like discussions :D