About a year ago, I moved into a high-rise apartment building and over time, I started to notice that a lot of mentally handicapped people live in the same building. I often ride the elevator with many of them, who are truly as nice as friendly as they can be, and it is nearly impossible to avoid them, but at best I can only smile while I think on the inside (Go away, don't talk to me, etc.)
There is one such lady who always talks to everybody and strikes up conversations most of us would deem inappropriate, unless you have a close relationship, which I don't.
The other day, I saw her coming and she saw me trying to hide behind the stairwell door, until she got in the elevator. My husband then scolded me saying that what I did was rude. I couldn't argue from him, because he's right, and I hate myself for having such an attitude toward people who have never harmed me.
Why do have such feelings? How do I get over them?
Does anyone else feel like this? Or am I alone?
2007-04-13
07:13:50
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