tymaporer wrote:
Tharkun wrote:
If I could choose anything, I would say zealous moral relativists, but out of those, overly depressed people. Especially the people who fake being overly depressed. There was this girl in my art class who said she was fat, she was stupid and her paintings sucked just to garner attention. (Though she was a tad overweight, it was nothing to endanger her health, and it looked pretty good on her. She was able to cope with the workload of American Studies, so definitely not stupid, and as for her paintings...) You could tell she was faking because she socialized pretty normally with her friends when she wasn't complaining.
She could be putting up a front. I never show my depression in school. I always act cheerful around my friends because they always act cheerful around me. If you went to my school and didn't know me online, you'd never know I was depressed.
Well, when she complained about her paintings in particular, she was pretty well fishing for compliments. Next to Annie Hecker, who was an art school defector, she had the best paintings in class, no contest. When I comforted her, she pretty much glowed. Although, early on, she was probably fishing for pointers instead. She did take my tips to heart, anyway. Besides, there was this card table in the cafeteria that extolled the greatly overstated virtues of self-esteem (well, of
course the valedictorian would have greater self-esteem than the person with a D average - but then, they've accomplished a lot more. That's what a person prides oneself on, accomplishments, not a bunch of sappy lies) and what to do if someone showed signs of low self-esteem.
Do what you will; but I will hinder it if I may.
-- Eowyn of the Mark