I like to make people uncomfortable. A lot. The better I know them the better it feels. Groaning and shuddering when you accidentally brush against someone. Or when you shake their hands. Pretty much whenever there is physical contact... or eye contact... or there is someone else in the room. Its amazing. Casually over-sharing even slightly can immediately shut down a room in ways you might not expect.

Now I will freely admit that 1: this behavior rarely makes a positive impression, and 2: its not entirely intentional. My enjoyment of other people's awkward responses really developed from the fact that I loathe the social distance people create. The idea that it benefits anyone to split their personality between public and private is absurd to me. I can understand being aware of word choice and attempting to be sympathetic to people's situation, but that's not what that distance is used for. People use their masks to keep others at bay, to protect themselves from other people. Here's the thing. That is preemptive and preemptive behavior is never fucking justifiable. Period. Full Stop. Other Punctuation Term Denoting The Completion Of  A Statement. By "protecting" ourselves from people we don't think we know well enough to be honest with we're just making it more difficult to connect, more troublesome to empathize and more frustrating to interact in general.

So lets fucking stop it shall we? Next time someone asks you about your day; fucking tell them. Then ask about theirs, coax out a genuine response and try actually caring. Talk out your problems instead of hiding behind damaging social conventions. When someone gets real with you get real right back instead of shutting down, you might learn something and hell might help you both. Fastest way to shutdown an asshole like me is with a genuine response. If someone groans heavily when you touch them maybe agree that human contact is really nice. Or hell, "wow that's kinda creepy. Why do you do that?" We'll never improve as a society if we keep reinforcing our separation instead of engaging.

That is all. Go away.

-Eshi