So I'm watching Julie & Julia even though it's not my type of thing because I love Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, and this dialogue happened:
My initial reaction is "What? No." To me, if you don't like them, they aren't your friends! But then, I'm an introvert, and I also am a bit of a misanthrope. (Also I do remember being in high school and there were girls in my clique that I hung out with, and whose lives I was obliged to keep up with and show interest in, whom I didn't really like. But that's, you know, HIGH SCHOOL.)
But I was talking to my little sister yesterday and she is NOT a total misanthrope who never made a friend IRL who didn't do all the work for her (which I am), although she's a bit shy. And she said after a year in college she's made four friends but she isn't really sure she likes any of them.
So... maybe that IS true. What do you say?
Feel free to elaborate in the comments.
AMY (Julie): What do you think it means if you don't like your friends?
the divine MARY LYN RAJSKUB (her friend Sarah): It's completely normal.
My initial reaction is "What? No." To me, if you don't like them, they aren't your friends! But then, I'm an introvert, and I also am a bit of a misanthrope. (Also I do remember being in high school and there were girls in my clique that I hung out with, and whose lives I was obliged to keep up with and show interest in, whom I didn't really like. But that's, you know, HIGH SCHOOL.)
But I was talking to my little sister yesterday and she is NOT a total misanthrope who never made a friend IRL who didn't do all the work for her (which I am), although she's a bit shy. And she said after a year in college she's made four friends but she isn't really sure she likes any of them.
So... maybe that IS true. What do you say?
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It's normal to not like your friends, sure.
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No. If you don't like them they aren't your friends.
37 (61.7%)
For SOME of your friends, but not your important ones.
12 (20.0%)
It was in high school but it isn't in the real world.
6 (10.0%)
No, we call that 'pretending to be friends'!
30 (50.0%)
Sure. Of course it is. Totally normal.
3 (5.0%)
You mean there are people who like all of their friends?!
4 (6.7%)
Yes it is, but only in meatspace. Thank Bob for the Internet.
4 (6.7%)
Completely normal IRL and on the Internet. That's what talking behind their back is for.
1 (1.7%)
Feel free to elaborate in the comments.