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Thank you. I appreciate your honesty. I too share the “do as I say, not as I do” mentality. I am naturally tentative about revealing too much personal information on the internet so am reserved in revealing too much information, contrary to the masses of course who seem all to eager to divulge. I can say that I have isolated myself over the years, I am sure you can understand social demand to do so given your honesty. Real people, real fears, so complex. So I am gravitating towards the idea of the relative anonymity of the internet (such that it is at the moment) to test the waters. Get things wrong, make mistakes, learn from them, evolve. From my limited experience, most people are hard to get along with. Most are without patience and understanding. The “if I can do it / get it, then they should be able to also. If they cannot, it is their problem” is all too prevalent. This community increases the odds of finding individuals such as yourself that appear to break this norm, at least that was my hope. I too believe I fit into this category, taking the time and patience to understand people and the ever present desire to be of use, to help. I understand there is a DM function on lemmy, but I do not yet understand the etiquette so I’ll just ask, would you be OK with me DM’ing you? If not, I shall of course respect that. I do not wish to impose or make anyone feel uncomfortable. I do not know how to make friends on the internet, in general really. Sure there have been people over the years but I have yet to be able to connect the way I see others do. I’m at a point in my life where I am trying to figure out why and if it is even possible. So, this is me asking would you like to talk further without everything being on the public ledger? I do not wish to isolate any more, I am beginning to recognise social needs that need to be fulfilled in order to be happier, it is just that I find it very, very hard to just be myself around others. Most of the time I put others’ needs above my own and I recognise that after a while that becomes self destructive. I shan’t go into to much more information publicly, those privacy threads are starting to pull at me. You interest me as a person, identified simply by the few responses I have seen from you. Similarities I see in myself perhaps eluding to social compatibility. I should like to explore that more. Forgive me if this all sounds a little analytical / weird, this is just me being honest in my natural way.