Is it normal that i don't understand people?
I am constantly confounded by the motivations of my fellow human beings. I don't merely mean that I do not agree with some of the things people do, I literally mean that I do not understand them. Their actions are, to me, like dogs eating out of the cat box, or flies bouncing off lightbulbs; completely incomprehensible. Some examples:
- SPORTS FANATICISM. I don't understand how anyone could seriously care about professional spectator sports. They are not only boring, but the outcome of the game does not affect my life in any way. Furthermore, I have no personal connection to any team in any sport, thus no reason to prefer one to another.
- RELATIONSHIPS. The whole world is pitifully obsessed with finding one's "other half". Why? All relationships bring is trouble and drama. Why would someone want to live with another person and be constantly judged by them? Or have to make all kinds of compromises in day-to-day life? If it is because of some irresistible instinct, I guess I was born without it. I have been happily single for my entire life.
- ADOPTION. Today on the news, there was a story about a couple who adopted a number of "special needs" children. WHY THE HELL WOULD SOMEONE DO THAT?! The amount of responsibility this would entail, and the subsequent amputation of personal freedom, is 100X more than what it would take to drive me insane. Why would people do this to themselves?
- REVULSION. People are all up in arms over this Warren Jeffs thing (the polygamist/ pedophile sect guy). I COULDN'T CARE LESS! Since when does the majority have the right to impose their moral values on a group of people who have gone out into the middle of the desert to form their own little isolated community with their own rules? Why can't people just do whatever they want without being harassed? Why do people have to make moral evaluations of everything? Why can't people just shut up and mind their own business?
- OUTGOING PEOPLE. These scoundrels at work won't leave me alone. Everyday it's "Hi! How are you?" or "How's it going?". Why do they care? Why do they even have to look at me? Haven't they realized by now that I want't nothing to do with them? What possesses a person to attempt to communicate with someone as brooding and hateful looking as me?
- TRENDS. Why would somebody want to dress the same as everyone else? Everybody I see on a daily basis looks exactly the same. The younger people in particular are ridiculous looking; they all wear oversize basketball jersies and their pants sagging below their ass. Since I was young, I always dressed in such a way so as to stand out. The feeling of being similar to other people in any way has always been intolerable to me. Being ridiculed only increased my devotion to non-conformity ( I hate that trite phrase, but it fits).
There are more, but this is too long already.