I don’t care how you feel

This will loose me girl points, I know, but I don’t care how you feel. I care what you think about something, but not how you feel. There are people out there who’s emotional well being I care about. Just they are very few and far between. Emotional connections are personal and special to me. I’m not going to pour out my heart to everybody nor am I interested in hearing about your emotional history when I meet you.

This makes me come off as cold and distant sometimes, I know. I’ve gotten better about showing my surface emotions to make social situations more pleasant, but if I just meet you I don’t want to have you start crying about your issues. Nor should you expect to learn my deep dark secrets.

I don’t care about how you feel on a social issue. I really just don’t. I want to know what you think on an issue. I can talk about thoughts. I can share my thoughts, thoughts can change and have reasons for existing. Emotions are whimsical and often exist for no reason other than to exist.

I don’t want to bond with everyone I meet. I don’t want to feel connected to everyone. I want to talk to you about why you think a certain way and then discus new ideas. I want to see how you think things through. I don’t care how your cat’s death effected you when you were nine.

I want to know how you reached a conclusion and if a personal experience ties into that, great, evidence. I want to know how you are going to change something, or why you think someone is doing a good job. Emotional connections aren’t something I just throw around.

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