The Importance Of Interaction With People

In today’s world, we must know how to appropriately interact with people our age and people in general; living in a world with no sympathetic or empathic morals could be traumatizing. I may have only been on this earth eighteen years, but I believe I have come to the conclusion that I truly don’t know how to interact with people the way I should; trying to step into someone else’s shoes is uncomfortable, learning how someone feels about a certain subject is even harder when opening up about my own feelings feels burdensome, yet I can somehow relate to them on an empathetic level.
When my ex-best friend would come to me with problems, which was rare, I tried to the best of my ability to help her solve them. I would go over every situation in my head but nothing I would suggest would please her, nor would any of my sympathetic answers live up to her standards. …show more content…
It was probably one of the most awkward encounters with a human being I have had besides some doctor visits, because I despise complaining about my emotional needs. One problem with the way I see this is if you don’t let all those feelings out, they’ll dam up until one day you’re going to burst and it will not be pretty. These feelings are not meant to be kept inside for so long, particularly when someone wants to genuinely help you get through what you’re going through at the time. I have had many encounters of the years of my friends coming to me to ask if I could help them with a problem they are having. Depending on what their problem is, and if I can truly help them in the way that they need, I stop what I’m doing and pay attention. Of course, most of the time my interactions leave me feeling a tad bit awkward, sometimes they don’t help the person I spoke to; despite having “helped” these people, I can still relate to them no matter how much of an introvert I