We all like being liked. I'm not really talking about Facebook here, where everyone like everything so often that its nothing special. I am talking about having other people take an interest in you. Everyone loves that feeling when they know someone else finds them attractive. The attraction doesn't have to be in a romantic way, just in a way that you feel as though you are interesting in a unique way. It doesn't matter if we are in a relationship or single, but each and every one of us does one thing or another to make ourselves more appealing.
It's one of those selfish human traits we have. We will lead a man/woman along, even if we are in a great relationship that we have no intention of ending, just so we still feel adored. We don't really think about the emotions of that other person, and neither do we feel like confronting them because we don't want to ruin a relationship that we enjoy getting attention for. This is one of the many things i was thinking of for the past week. Everything that we humans do to survive is, in one way or another, selfish. Survival of the fittest, it's how many animals have evolved and survived. However being 'strong' and only looking out for ourselves as individuals is not how we can survive. Every way we look we are ruining our chances for survival. We are slowly destroying our environment, abusing it in an unsustainable way, but we don't care for we will be dead before the next mass extinction.
I have always thought about how everything is connected in one way or another, and i guess the way we think as individuals about the most mundane things like looks and personality, can reflect in our population as a whole.
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