[and these should not be difficult things to master]
I disagree. With anything other than people and art, I feel like there's some concrete science to fall back on. With the above, it's all variables and uncertainties and the rules of the game are constantly changing. (I once saw someone make the comparison that we can predict complicated global weather patterns, but we can't predict the stock market – but then, global weather patterns don't watch the Weather Channel and adjust their behavior on what was predicted.)
And... yeah. I wish I had some advice or handy tips or tricks or anything, but I have never managed to work out the mechanisms of how one finds or forms friendships. I swear it's high alchemy.
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Date: 2010-10-25 02:46 pm (UTC)I disagree. With anything other than people and art, I feel like there's some concrete science to fall back on. With the above, it's all variables and uncertainties and the rules of the game are constantly changing. (I once saw someone make the comparison that we can predict complicated global weather patterns, but we can't predict the stock market – but then, global weather patterns don't watch the Weather Channel and adjust their behavior on what was predicted.)
And... yeah. I wish I had some advice or handy tips or tricks or anything, but I have never managed to work out the mechanisms of how one finds or forms friendships. I swear it's high alchemy.