Social Butterfly

Have you felt excited about meeting new people? Mingling around with people whom you don't usually meet and sharing with them some of your main interests. Or maybe meet up with like-minded people, perhaps someone who shares that same interest with you? How about people you meet through the internet?

Well I for one can still remember how I used to meet up with people whom I would know from internet chatrooms last time, when mIRC was still popular. It was a time when Internet was becoming very popular yet people would still want to interact with each other face to face. This usually excites me for you don't know what kind of people you might meet. However amidst all the excitement, this socializing thing (or some of us would rather call it networking) is really very tiring.

Don't get me wrong. I'm very ok with interacting with people through digital means of MSN, Facebook, Twitter, etc. but meeting up face to face is whole different ball game altogether. A couple of observations and also based on personal experience. Firstly, you want to create a good impression of yourself to people. You don't want to look stupid and you won't want to look too smart either. People tend to want to be somewhere average just so they won't be judge (you never know what kind of ideals these new people that you're going to meet has).

Secondly, you would want to pick out the right conversations. These conversations usually tend to be very generic. But it's what happens after the generic conversations are over that truly makes or break someone.

Which brings us to point number 3 on why socializing is tiring, wittiness. Conversations tend to flow when either one of the party is witty enough to build on the conversation itself. Little bits of intellectual humour helps bring a conversation to a whole new level with people looking at you at a different light. It's how fast and light hearted humoured responses you can come up with in the few seconds which builds an impression of you further.

I could go on but these 3 points alone is enough to drain someone out and usually half the time you can see people hanging out by themselves in the corner of the room trying to take a break from all these. So yes it is tiring but one can't do without it and expect to progress high in life. Unfortunately.