Sunday, January 25, 2009

As you can tell from my lack of posts lately, I've been busy and lazy these few weeks. I'd been meaning to post this early though.

I've observed something quite a while ago... The people at work are a rather touchy-feely bunch. My buddy in particular is someone who likes to touch people on the arms, point very close in people's faces and general invade people's personal space when talking to them.

I can't blame them for being touchy-feely now can I? They just happen to really love human contact but I don't. So being subjected to their brand of friendship is a little--uncomfortable.

I've never been touchy-feely. Jess had been trying to get me to hug her back for all of 10 years rather unsuccessfully. I've long suspected that it could be because I was brought up in a family that isn't affectionate by nature and therefore not used to such displays. We don't hug, we don't kiss, we don't exchange 'love you's when we leave the house or end phonecalls. It wasn't until I'm 18 that mom started dispensing hugs freely and that really wigged me out a bit. But that's not to say I abhor touch or anything. I'd rather be the one initiating the touch, is all...

Another thing I noticed a while ago was the people at work really like to discuss relationship stuff and/or match-make single people--which really annoys me because I'm always one of the subjects of interest seeing as I'm single. But unlike the other single people, I'm not actively looking to be un-single.

This had always been the problem since I was 12. Everyone's out to make sure everyone else gets hitched so that said everyone can have their boyfriends/girlfriends and not feel guilty about not being single. At every stage of my life, whenever I enter a new institution or had a change of environment, everyone would be doing that and I had to inform them none-too-kindly that I am not interested in so-and-so or so-and-so or so-and-so enough times for them to leave me be.

Don't seem to work with Jess though.

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