Is it normal to feel regretful to get someone to like something you like?

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So recently, I was interested in some of these anime series. Unfortunately, no one around seemed to know what 'anime' is all about. So I just recommended one of the series to my best friend in hoping she will start liking anime too and I'll have someone to discuss about it.

well, some days later she called me up and said she's gone crazy about that series, and at that point of time, I started feeling regretful of what I have done.

It felt like I gave someone something which was very important to me and which was not to be shared. Is this feeling normal?

And I have encountered this kind of scenario lot many times, and I regret it every time.

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  • iH8
    8 years ago

    I find myself really disappointed when I meet fans of obscure bands that I love. Like somehow my relationship with that music is no longer special. Like I get glopped in with a social group of fans and I lose my identity, my personal experience and relationship with the music. I and my feelings about the music become irrelevant. I feel like a discarded wrapper blowing about in a gutter's breeze. Utterly insignificant. It's the same feeling that I imagine other people have when they lose something or someone they truly love.

    So, yeah, I can relate. I can empathize. I can not empathize at all with somebody who loves something I love, though. I don't know how normal this is. I suspect not at all, but what the hell do I know?

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    • Myghoul2099
      8 years ago

      that's what killed nirvana.

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  • ______________
    8 years ago

    I kinda get what you mean. Like recommending a band and then they act like they like it more?

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  • GrayHulk99
    8 years ago

    sigh... i have whored my own daughters out to foreign countries for crack.

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    • GrayHulk999
      8 years ago

      oh for christ's sake hulk! that's horrible!

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  • mysistersshadow
    8 years ago

    Seems even more abnormal that someone likes anime.

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