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       My Experiences With People
       By: davidwilliammusic Date: February 23, 2021, 9:44 am
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       I am writing this to document my experiences with people which
       has led to the situation I now see in the world today.  Kind of
       my personal journey with people that I see reflected in the
       world situation.
       I've always been a pretty shy person, although I wouldn't call
       myself an introvert.  In the right company I can come to life
       and be quite extroverted but generally I don't push myself out
       there onto other people or the world because that has never felt
       right to me.  I've always felt what is right for you will come
       to you and find you and so I've spent most of my life just doing
       my thing, quietly putting it out there to be found by those who
       are drawn to it.  I say this, because to some extent, I
       understand shy and introverted people.
       That being said, I have found a lot of human behaviour really
       bewildering to understand for many years now.  The first
       noticeable experience of this kind I had was with someone on the
       David Icke forum over 10 years ago now.  This person enquired
       about me, wanted to know more about my life and then viciously
       turned against me and shut out all possibility of communication
       and resolving things.  I thought that was a one-off.
       One of the things they did was to block my ex-girlfriend who was
       a 'friend' on Facebook.  The whole idea of blocking people on
       social media was strange to me at that time.  Then several years
       later it happened to me with someone else who blocked her phone
       number and all forms of online communication.  These people
       would always be the ones to instigate the relationship forming
       and then would cut me out suddenly and without warning leaving
       me wondering and without resolve or closure to the relationship.
       I came to discover this is known as "ghosting".
       Others did it in a more subtle way, by never fully entering into
       anything with me but showing signs they wanted to - smiling or
       showing interest in some way.  Then suddenly cutting you out
       before starting the process all over again until I walked away.
       Then there were those who would initiate a relationship of some
       kind with me and without warning disappear.  They would then
       reappear weeks, months or years later and expect to resume the
       relationship before disappearing again.  These people failed to
       understand this is not how a healthy friendship or relationship
       should be.
       What I also learned during this time was that every time I
       attempted to reach out to people I was rejected.  My intuitive
       feeling was always this from a young age and it generally served
       me well but from the time I arrived back in Edinburgh at the end
       of 2014, I soon realised the world was very different to what
       had been before.  So many people kept pushing and urging me to
       show my face, put myself out there, promote myself.  I was urged
       in different ways to reach out to people and against my nature
       and intuition, and because nothing else was happening, I gave it
       a try but each time I did it backfired.
       Way back in 1999, when I first went online and began chatting to
       people I now realise there were signs of it then.  It was not as
       blatant perhaps because society in general was largely offline,
       although there were signs of it there too.  In fact, I've only
       ever met a handful of people in my life who have not behaved
       this way.  Whenever I have moved away from people it has always
       been more final.  A recognition we were not really on the same
       wavelength and the signs of this would be there for a while
       growing until I cut contact.  I never wanted to play games with
       these people or wish bad on them, I simply recognised we were
       not right for each other and moved on.  Often one of the reasons
       for this would be those people had a lot of other stuff and
       people going on in their life which distracted and took them
       away from me and what I was about so I never felt I would be
       missed.
       In recent years I have found myself reluctantly having to adopt
       some of these blocking and cutting people out habits myself.  I
       have only ever done this when the person involved was bringing
       too much chaos and confusion and disharmony into my life.  To
       stay sane in this crazy world if I felt I was being messed
       around too much I may block someone or cut them out.  Before
       reaching this point I'd give them a chance or several chances to
       explain and usually they wouldn't take those opportunities so
       what choice did I have?
       The impression many of these people gave me was that I was to be
       some sort of figure in their lives they could come back to
       whenever it suited them.  I was never going to accept this
       because I have a life too and things I want to do and if they
       didn't respect this then I didn't want them around me.  I have
       always maintained I am here for only one thing - that is to
       build my reality and world with Music at the centre and to focus
       my time and attention to the people who wish to join me and
       build that with me.  What others do with their lives is up to
       them but that is what I am here for and so I don't have time to
       waste on those who are looking for something else.
       That may sound harsh but its pretty straight-forward and not
       intended to offend others.  I understand there are introverted,
       shy and awkward people out there but its not my responsibility
       to accommodate them all.  I can only accommodate those who are
       genuinely drawn to what I am about and what I'm trying for.
       Don't hear that as me dismissing others, as only wanting to know
       those who like my work and what I'm about, but as has often been
       stated, you can only help others when you are strong yourself,
       when you have your thing up-and-running and going strong, and so
       that will always be my priority.  So far my experiences with
       people have largely hindered rather than helped in that area (or
       at best hindered as much as helped) and that is something I'd
       like to see change.  It seems to me in the world right now
       people are searching for people and groups to belong to, ideas
       and philosophies to belong to, perhaps because the world is in
       such a state of uncertainty.  Its natural for people to want to
       belong to something but if we are to find our way out of this
       mess there has to be a level of commitment, so that when you
       find the thing that suits you and fulfills that sense of
       belonging you follow through and stay with it.
       * Originally posted on old forum 4th Jan 2021 *
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