Often times we end up thinking, why is this guy wasting my time; when will this conversation get over; how can I escape his gaze, while passing by; and so on. I am pretty sure that we all have had these questions flash across in our minds at some point for one reason or the other. After taking my evening tea, this thought crossed my mind and I sat down to classify different people that one deals with on a day to day basis.
1. Obnoxious, self-centered, gloating Prick:
I am sure everyone can quickly recall such a person in our environment. For no reason that person will talk to you about how others think how smart the person is, how successful the person has been and so on; and talk to you when you were not even considering talking to him. The person would be least interested in listening to what you have to say or want to say. Easy thing I do to deal with those persons is think of a joke, a PHD comic that I read for the morning, or a nice song and pose a smiling face while that person is yapping away :). I am not talking about the person who is excited about sharing good news with you; this is someone who has kept his/her trust in you; I am talking about someone who always does this, no matter when/where/how you meet the person.
2. I am superior to you:
This group of people have an air about themselves and when you cross their path, they simply turn their gaze away, in a dis-respectful way. I am not even talking about people who turn their gaze away out of shyness, busyness or anything; those people you can easily separate from this group. I am talking about the group who do it purposefully every single time, as if we don't belong to their so called superior world. I wonder what goes through their minds! sigh.
3. Recluse:
Not a lot to say about this lot. This is just the way they are.
4. Random Gibberish:
This lot is sometimes good to talk to; sometimes they can be a real pain in the neck. This is the kind of lot that has no agenda but talk; and so they talk gibberish. Give them any topic, they will be able to yap about that for any length of time. Even it means repeating themselves, they wont stop, until somebody stops them. This lot can be annoying almost always. But once in a while, one would always want to be involved in such a gibberish, I guess. I think this mostly happens with close-friends with mutual participation and involvement from either side. But when somebody else out of your close-friend circle is trying to engage you in such a conversation, then you are in for pain until it lasts.
5. Calmer group:
This group just wave and sport a nice smile and show respect to you. People in this group are a confident lot, respect other people and are the best of all the classes given here, according to me.
Seems like the tea has lost its effect now. I got reminded of the pending research work on my desk. That is all for now.
Finally I would like to leave you with a few thoughts of George Carlin on people.
If you would like to extend this list. Please add it in the comments.
