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Is social interaction actually enjoyable or just socially required? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by userreality@lemmy.zip to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I genuinely don’t understand how people see social interaction as something beautiful or natural. To me it feels like pure obligation.

Even at work you are not really yourself. You are adjusting how you speak, how you act, and how you respond just to fit the role, satisfy your employer, and keep things smooth with colleagues. That constant switching can be exhausting.

Outside of work it does not feel that different. Conversations, replying, small talk, making plans, it can all feel more like maintenance than real connection.

Sometimes it feels like people are not actually enjoying it as much as they say. They are just used to it being the default way to live.

Maybe I am missing something, but I do not see the beautiful part everyone talks about.

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

The only times I enjoyed it involved lots of really fun party drugs and lots of really fun parties.

I'm probably lucky I got it all out of my system when I did tbh, I doubt the good clean party drugs are as cheap, high quality and plentiful as they once were, and I was really hot back then with the spare cash for cool clothes and regular benders.

I've been back to basically being the human equivilent of an indoor cat again for a good long while now though and sometimes writing things on the internet with/to/for the gay nerds who live in my phone, is perfectly valid people-ing imo.