Would you be friends with yourself?

[Dead Horse]

Of course.
I am loyal, trustworthy, empathetic, supportive, and spectacularly boring.
I mean, what's not to like?

 

[vitbar]

I don't know. This question really bothered me ngl. Like made me emotional. My opinion of myself flips so much. I blow hot and cold because of my issues too which would trigger me coming from someone else.

 

[Unhumanly.]

Yes and we will ctb together

 

[lamargue]

yes, though he might become a doppelganger and up-stage my own life.

 

[ForWhatPurpose]

nah. I'd wanna beat myself up

 

[Lost in a Dream]

If it's my evil twin then no. If it's an exact copy of me in every way, I would get along with them great.

 

[DefinitelyReady]

Sure, friends with benefits too!

Someone's got no shame in their game

 

[Nuance]

Imagine the possibilities. Unlimited co-op games because you and yourself would like the game the same way, for the same reasons.

Or evenly matched competitions.

Unless you mean it in a figurative way? Like learning to love yourself?
Or a psychological way, like being friends with an split personality that I could also consider ''myself''?

Now I need more input for these hypothetical scenarios.

 

[sensitiveguy]

I know I say shit like this a lot but now that I'm thinking a bit more about it I wouldn't be friends with myself but for very different reasons. I don't tend to engage a lot with others irl. I'm very antisocial and I don't know how to initiate conversation with others. I rely on others to initiate first. I also am not the best with handling my emotions and communicating with others. I wouldn't be friends with me because it would just be too much work.

Asocial*

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Asocial*

 

[sensitiveguy]

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It's just that asocial is more accurate. The term antisocial scares me.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

It's just that asocial is more accurate. The term antisocial scares me.

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Wow, it's almost like words can have more than one meaning! What's next? You plan on correcting someone for using the word "theory" because they weren't using it the same way scientists do?

I explicitly mentioned that I tend not to engage with others so the word would technically still work under this context.


Also, what does the term scaring you have you do with anything?

 

[sensitiveguy]

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Wow, it's almost like words can have more than one meaning! What's next? You plan on correcting someone for using the word "theory" because they weren't using it the same way scientists do?

I explicitly mentioned that I tend not to engage with others so the word would technically still work under this context.


Also, what does the term scaring you have you do with anything?

Certainly it does work in your context, but antisocial is a broad term that also means hostility and disregard for other people's feelings. Thus, using asocial is more appropriate since it only means unwilling to socialize.

Antisocial behavior is normally associated with criminal diagnoses, which is kind of scary.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Certainly it does work in your context, but antisocial is a broad term that also means hostility and disregard for other people's feelings. Thus, using asocial is more appropriate since it only means unwilling to socialize.

Antisocial behavior is normally associated with criminal diagnoses, which is kind of scary.

Or, you could just guess what I meant by the word using a little thing known as "context".

 

[abchia]

Imagine the possibilities. Unlimited co-op games because you and yourself would like the game the same way, for the same reasons.

Or evenly matched competitions.

Unless you mean it in a figurative way? Like learning to love yourself?
Or a psychological way, like being friends with an split personality that I could also consider ''myself''?

Now I need more input for these hypothetical scenarios.

I thought of the question as, if you were someone else, would you friend someone who had the same personality, behaviour, thoughts, and past as you right now? **if you were someone else

 

[untothedepths]

No. But I would feel an enormous amount of pity, confusion, and sadness. An enormous amount of loathing too directed at me. I would see just another broken human being who can only eat, sleep, and breathe.

 

[Metalhead]

Never

 

[enduringwinter]

I defeated my evil doppelganger but wouldve loved to be friends

 

[NeedAnEscape]

I would pity myself. I keep falling into patterns and making the same mistakes over and over again. I know I am capable of being cared about, and I don't think I'd want to destroy someone who was a mirror of me.

 

[Ferdinand Bardamu]

If I was chill all the time? yeah

 

[FinalDestination]

100% not. When I look in the mirror I'm always repulsed by my reflection and I'm a horrible person to be around. On a psychological level, I'd be scared to come face to face with myself and forced to see my shortcomings and have it confirmed in flesh I've been right all this time

 

[sancta-simplicitas]

No. Which is something I recently realized. I'm a great person in a lot of ways; sweet, caring, empathic, intuitive, funny, accepting. But I've been a total asshole. Withdrawing, ghosting and flaking out because of my declining mental health. Not only that, but I've rarely told people why. Last time I met my friend group, they told me that the thought I either hated them or were dead. I'm also very, very shitty at communicating. When someone does something that bothers me, I never say a thing about it because I'm too afraid of conflict. Instead I make myself passive and into some kind of sounding board for shitty behavior, without ever voicing a need of my own. If a friend did that to me, I'd freak.

 

[ham and potatoes]

Former self? yeah, he was a pretty fun, wild, and easy going guy.
Current self? na, that guy kinda sucks. doesnt do much, keeps to himself, and is kinda a downer.

 

[Tortured_empath]

Yeah need someone who can match my misfortune

 

[vadim]

Definitely not. Not only because I know what a bad person I am, but also because I'm just boring, unfunny, and plain uninteresting. I've thought about it a lot and I think if I met a person with the exact same combination of traits as me I would hate them viscerally.

 

[idontfeellikeimreal]

On one hand I absolutely would NOT want to be near me.

But on the other hand I would probably have someone understand me for once, I couldn't ever imagine to be friends with myself tho.
On one hand I absolutely would NOT want to be near me.

But on the other hand I would probably have someone understand me for once, and always have someone that talks to me no matter what I do, I couldn't ever imagine to be friends with myself tho.

 

[RemainingDubious]

No

 

[glitteryaliens]

No. I'm pretty standoffish and I'd probably be burnt out from talking to them after two days.

 

[mikgazer6]

Yes
1. someone to discuss and share new music with
2. someone I can relate with
3. Im desperate

 

[damienlerone03]

If it was someone like me then yeah definitely, we both would be the bestest of friends, the ones where you can be slightly jokingly racist to each other type.
If it was me then hell nah. I know exactly what kinda man they are.