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Feb 02nd, 2010 - How Interesting – Are You An Interesting Person?
Marsha Maung
Most of us, I am not saying ALL of us, want affirmation of some sort. I understand that some people may label that either as 'desperado' or 'get-a-life-syndrome' but you know what? It's not. It is actually quite normal for us to want to be interesting to other people.
You want your friends to laugh when you tell them jokes. You want your kids to love you back the way you love them. You want your father to be proud of you. You want your mother to think she raised you right. You want your clients to think that you are indestructible.
There are many other things in life that points out to us that we are creatures that consistently look out for affirmation.
One of the things that I have discovered about turning into an interesting person is this – you need to be interested before you can be interesting! Funny, isn't it? But it is true!
The word 'karma' ring a bell to you? Anyway, this is not about karma.
This is about being interested about the people around you, what others are doing, what they are thinking, feeling, saying and is hurt about. If you smile and laugh at what they say, they NATURALLY gravitate towards you...it is the same thing I always say about the online social networking work that I do...you don't push yourself into their faces all the time...let them come to you. Make yourself interested and they will eventually find you an interesting person.
And the other thing that I think helps people become more interesting to others is positivity. Yes, the more positive it is, the more you smile, the better people like you. I know you can't be smiley all the time and there will be down moments and you SHOULD share that with others who can lend you a shoulder to cry on – you are not metal. You are a human being and human beings deserve the chance to be weak once in a while.
And then when you are done with moping, get up, dust yourself off and start getting interested in people and be positive again.
Even with that said, it is not healthy for people to focus too much on what others think of them. At the end of the day, whether people find you interesting or not, the person who matters the most is you. Do YOU think you are interesting enough?
If you do, congratulations, I think most of your friends will agree with you.
This is so elementary that it makes me feel silly just writing this down but you know how forgetful human beings are, don't you?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marsha Maung is a Malaysian-based freelance web copywriter with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her blog for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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<b>Marsha Maung</b> is a Malaysian-based <a href="http://www.marshamaung.com" target="_blank">freelance writer</a> with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her <a href="http://www.marshamaung.blogspot.com" target="_blank">blog</a> for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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