u/seriousQasker

Sometimes we have to spend time with people we don't like.

Akira Kurosawa made so many good films. This came out in 1955.

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.

They don't know why you are quiet. They don't know the psychology behind it. They don't know the reason you are standoffish. They don't endure the burden of a perpetual self-consciousness. They don't understand avoidant behaviours. They don't know the inner mechanisms that makes these behaviours feel necessary to you.

You barely understand them yourself. "Why am I like this?" It all feels silly sometimes. "What's the worst that could happen?" Maybe the worst that could happen already happened years ago. Maybe it happened at home, or at school, or both. Maybe it happened repeatedly. Maybe it made daily life a brutal thing, something to endure and survive.

Most people are never going to know these things.

Maybe it's a psychology question. When you meet an arrogant person it feels disgusting, right? Then do you wonder if really that person is just deeply insecure and full of shame, and the arrogance is just an act?