Alcyone is reading a book, don't know what happened to ZenCat.
Ah, books...the downfall to the INFJ
Alcyone didn't just read the book, Alcyone was consumed by the book. For a full day and a half. The Hollows, Terre de Ange, and the Shadow Realm do that to me. A New book in one of those series coming out means shutting out the entire world until the first read is done.
*sigh* Now a long long wait til the next book......Stupid series authors....
Anyhow, I've noticed that women who are strong willed and opinionated tend to be called bitches....Why is that? (<= this is a rhetorical question)
Anyhow, that vibe never came across from ya TK* because there is a one distinction people fail to make. True bitches are also completely self absorbed, narsissistic, and committed to the belief (however erroneously) that they are ALWAYS right. You might be always right, but you havent' come across as a narsissist and you definately aren't self-absorbed to the exclusion of the world (in other words you don't live as if the sun, planets, and galaxy revolves around you).
It takes strength to speak out against the opinion of the masses. It gets you noticed and unfairly labeled.
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There are a few I've gravitated to right away. In a couple cases for reasons I don't completely understand myself.
There are those I gravitate to, but for some reason I feel a wall that I can't seem to breech. Like I want to interact more with these people and develop a more involved interaction, but feel like they have the stop sign up for some reason or another.
Then there are the ones I try to draw out so I can learn more about but they respond luke warm about it and tend to scurry back before conversation can really get going. Others seem to only want to interact on the most superficial levels.
Most people I am neutral about. I am not attracted but am watching. I reach out every now and then but tend to leave the ball in their courts. Most people are in this catagory. It's not a bad thing. So I hold back and wait to see who sticks around and who doesn't. I just don't like the possibility of getting to know someone, starting to enjoy interacting with them, then having them up and disappear on me. It's not the best of mindsets to have in an online forum since people come and go all the time, and that kind of heart rending is guaranteed.
I don't think there is anyone active who I dislike. Plenty of people I don't understand or necessarily see eye-to-eye with. There are a couple of people on my wary list. People that for some reason or another are hitting off-key resonances.