Being ignored
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:08 pm
There was a question which pestered me for a long time. Please, first of all, show me some respect and do not start saying "you are shy" or "you need better social skills". I actually undertook all that through many years, I improved myself socially immensely and I know what I'm talking about.
Here is an issue, people always tend to ignore me. I always feel that I'm not there. That I could be cut from the group, from the situation completely and nobody will even miss me. This is even more ironic then I'm a center piece of something. For example, I participated in debate activities for two years, third year I was elected as a president. There was a lot of political games, betrayals and etc. etc. It was as much about debating as it was about practicing real politik and watching soap dramas. The amazing thing happened then I was actually elected (being betrayed during election, because everything must feature at least one betrayal. It was part of treaty of Versalies). Everything died down. People became calm and content. Their motivation had dissappeared. I imagined that I will be a center point of all that drama which I had been part of for two years, but no, I showed that I wont take this shit by not taking part in any of that. Entire year, I was a centerpiece of the club, but people had lost all motivation in the club. No, I did not did anything in that regard and they had same motivation returned the very next year then I had left. Through entire year I felt that I was isolated, that I hold post and instead of being someone of interest, I was even greater nobody. Which was extremely strange since I held all the power and became a tyrant (made all the choices solely myself) on the virtue that people just ignored me and never talked about anything important to me. Which was a complete and sudden shift of what kind of rule we wanted last year. From fighting for democracy, it became a dictoraship just because I was elected and nobody talked to me.
It is not just isolated accident. I made many speeches in the events as a guest, nobody is interested in me despite "proving" most provoking things to them. No, I'm not just being some dick, it is an academic event with multiple speakers and I hold highest of standards of presenting something interesting and doing that in interesting fashion. Same happens if I moderate event. It is me who leads entire discussion, organizes whole event and yet, I feel like I'm invisible to people. Given a chance to speak to event organizer, a moderator, professional debator, people will always choose someone which they do not know at all. And no, I did not had a chance to be hostile or anything, even being complete strangers this happens way too often. Humans have this tendency to ignore me, I feel invisible to them and they only notices me if I'm completely out of place, like coming to their offices or start talking to them. Other than that I have a feeling that I always just fly under their radar. This is fascinating since everyone teaches social responsibility on their own part, but I witnessed that humans have no social responsibility then it comes to me. I'm in complete control of social interactions, because no matter if we are best friends, other person will never take responsibility to initiate conversation or to save friendship then I suddenly decide to burn the bridge.
I know what you will have strong desire to write this down to social skills or body language. The point is, I'm huge guy. I have a lot of muscles and bulk. I thought in my teenager years that being one of those guys will make me far more noticable. My fears were not met. Despite having body mass and body language to literally alone scare armed muggers in the dark alleys, I simply do not impress the image to other people. I have confident body language, I have bulk and then I speak, I speak confidently. Well, I try to be more contained, but even small outbursts are being remarked by humans as something out of the ordinary. They remark my gaze, for example, a person cuts me in line and then apologizes then it sees me. Then I'm angry, I just need to look at the other person and he tries to put down my gaze with humor. Telling me how angry I look. It is not just negative. If I express myself, I often get comments like these: "Interesting position. (something which they find interesting, cannot point out any logical flaws, but is somehow a position which does not need mentioning or talking about despite their whole purpose there is talking about such things)", "very strong" or "something which is expressed too strongly or relates to very strong personal beliefs" despite if it is just an ordinary thing.
I thought it was my social skills, after all, I prefer solitude. Yet, despite learning a lot about it. Despite going to talk with people in confidence, despite leading conversations every time, I had learned the one thing: it is all the same. It does not matter if "Go and talk with people" or "Let people talk with you". It all results in very same thing. Feeling that I'm not there. Please, do not relate this in overestimating myself, I can talk with any person and make him smile. I can easily small talk with my roomate and make him laugh then I wish despite barely talking with each other. It is same issue with all the others, I feel that no matter how adept I'm in social interaction, no matter what image I cast of me, I will always end up in the same situation, being ignored while being included. Heck, even then people enter our room, offering something, I had noticed that they always focus their full attention on my roomate. It might be from my desire of not giving any shit and being focused on my computer and my back to them, but it is damn strange then people do not even try to get my attention then their job is specifically to sell or promote something to as many people as they can.
The most ridiculous example of this was then were was an issue with university's finances. Despite my name, address and contacts being presented all over the document, a person went out of this way in contacting the different person and through that person it interacted with me. Then I cut that person out, all the questions also disappeared. A new manager did not even tried to contact me directly even once despite being more than eager to make books straight. This is that fascinates me and events like these are very common as much as they can be. It is similar case everywhere, I feel that my material presence is registered as lightly as it can realistically be.
Another thing, certain people instantly attach to me. I mean, people often see me in positive light, but some see me in extraordinary good terms. I have a tendency to get strange affections (not love, friendships).
So, I want to know, if you have similar experiences? Is there something in my aura to which people instinctavely react? I was doing random research and I found out primal animals, was interesting in animal spirit guides. I do corelate with raven immensely and one thing stood out to me. People tend to view such people with fear and respect and hold their distance. I'm not sure how much of this is true, but I certainly was fighting with this for many years and now I decided to embrace it. As a true raven, I will use my disadvantages to my advantages. I know that I can create immense impressions upon people then I want it and dissappear from their sight in day to day matters. Unusual combination which I have, but constant underestimation of my abilities while having the capacity to be overestimated then I put conscious effort into expressing myself and putting myself into center of attention of everybody will serve me greatly. But I'm afraid this question will puzzle me for many more years. Why, despite being able to easily impress everybody around me, I'm overwhelmed as being something insignificant and invisible to others?
Here is an issue, people always tend to ignore me. I always feel that I'm not there. That I could be cut from the group, from the situation completely and nobody will even miss me. This is even more ironic then I'm a center piece of something. For example, I participated in debate activities for two years, third year I was elected as a president. There was a lot of political games, betrayals and etc. etc. It was as much about debating as it was about practicing real politik and watching soap dramas. The amazing thing happened then I was actually elected (being betrayed during election, because everything must feature at least one betrayal. It was part of treaty of Versalies). Everything died down. People became calm and content. Their motivation had dissappeared. I imagined that I will be a center point of all that drama which I had been part of for two years, but no, I showed that I wont take this shit by not taking part in any of that. Entire year, I was a centerpiece of the club, but people had lost all motivation in the club. No, I did not did anything in that regard and they had same motivation returned the very next year then I had left. Through entire year I felt that I was isolated, that I hold post and instead of being someone of interest, I was even greater nobody. Which was extremely strange since I held all the power and became a tyrant (made all the choices solely myself) on the virtue that people just ignored me and never talked about anything important to me. Which was a complete and sudden shift of what kind of rule we wanted last year. From fighting for democracy, it became a dictoraship just because I was elected and nobody talked to me.
It is not just isolated accident. I made many speeches in the events as a guest, nobody is interested in me despite "proving" most provoking things to them. No, I'm not just being some dick, it is an academic event with multiple speakers and I hold highest of standards of presenting something interesting and doing that in interesting fashion. Same happens if I moderate event. It is me who leads entire discussion, organizes whole event and yet, I feel like I'm invisible to people. Given a chance to speak to event organizer, a moderator, professional debator, people will always choose someone which they do not know at all. And no, I did not had a chance to be hostile or anything, even being complete strangers this happens way too often. Humans have this tendency to ignore me, I feel invisible to them and they only notices me if I'm completely out of place, like coming to their offices or start talking to them. Other than that I have a feeling that I always just fly under their radar. This is fascinating since everyone teaches social responsibility on their own part, but I witnessed that humans have no social responsibility then it comes to me. I'm in complete control of social interactions, because no matter if we are best friends, other person will never take responsibility to initiate conversation or to save friendship then I suddenly decide to burn the bridge.
I know what you will have strong desire to write this down to social skills or body language. The point is, I'm huge guy. I have a lot of muscles and bulk. I thought in my teenager years that being one of those guys will make me far more noticable. My fears were not met. Despite having body mass and body language to literally alone scare armed muggers in the dark alleys, I simply do not impress the image to other people. I have confident body language, I have bulk and then I speak, I speak confidently. Well, I try to be more contained, but even small outbursts are being remarked by humans as something out of the ordinary. They remark my gaze, for example, a person cuts me in line and then apologizes then it sees me. Then I'm angry, I just need to look at the other person and he tries to put down my gaze with humor. Telling me how angry I look. It is not just negative. If I express myself, I often get comments like these: "Interesting position. (something which they find interesting, cannot point out any logical flaws, but is somehow a position which does not need mentioning or talking about despite their whole purpose there is talking about such things)", "very strong" or "something which is expressed too strongly or relates to very strong personal beliefs" despite if it is just an ordinary thing.
I thought it was my social skills, after all, I prefer solitude. Yet, despite learning a lot about it. Despite going to talk with people in confidence, despite leading conversations every time, I had learned the one thing: it is all the same. It does not matter if "Go and talk with people" or "Let people talk with you". It all results in very same thing. Feeling that I'm not there. Please, do not relate this in overestimating myself, I can talk with any person and make him smile. I can easily small talk with my roomate and make him laugh then I wish despite barely talking with each other. It is same issue with all the others, I feel that no matter how adept I'm in social interaction, no matter what image I cast of me, I will always end up in the same situation, being ignored while being included. Heck, even then people enter our room, offering something, I had noticed that they always focus their full attention on my roomate. It might be from my desire of not giving any shit and being focused on my computer and my back to them, but it is damn strange then people do not even try to get my attention then their job is specifically to sell or promote something to as many people as they can.
The most ridiculous example of this was then were was an issue with university's finances. Despite my name, address and contacts being presented all over the document, a person went out of this way in contacting the different person and through that person it interacted with me. Then I cut that person out, all the questions also disappeared. A new manager did not even tried to contact me directly even once despite being more than eager to make books straight. This is that fascinates me and events like these are very common as much as they can be. It is similar case everywhere, I feel that my material presence is registered as lightly as it can realistically be.
Another thing, certain people instantly attach to me. I mean, people often see me in positive light, but some see me in extraordinary good terms. I have a tendency to get strange affections (not love, friendships).
So, I want to know, if you have similar experiences? Is there something in my aura to which people instinctavely react? I was doing random research and I found out primal animals, was interesting in animal spirit guides. I do corelate with raven immensely and one thing stood out to me. People tend to view such people with fear and respect and hold their distance. I'm not sure how much of this is true, but I certainly was fighting with this for many years and now I decided to embrace it. As a true raven, I will use my disadvantages to my advantages. I know that I can create immense impressions upon people then I want it and dissappear from their sight in day to day matters. Unusual combination which I have, but constant underestimation of my abilities while having the capacity to be overestimated then I put conscious effort into expressing myself and putting myself into center of attention of everybody will serve me greatly. But I'm afraid this question will puzzle me for many more years. Why, despite being able to easily impress everybody around me, I'm overwhelmed as being something insignificant and invisible to others?