[pct-l] social interaction / dealing with disagreeable people...

[Paul Robison]

thanks all for the encouraging replies about this.  it really put me back in the 
right mood.  i'll just shrug off what happens on here,  adsorb the knowledge i 
can and try and see what to sift through.  as for actual trail interactions i'll 
just think on my 2010 experience and not worry about it.

actually echo brought up that i often seem confrontation when i type so maybe 
it's the fact that emotions are readily read online as well.  so when someone is 
giving a contracy opinion, what would seem constructive in person ends up being 
inflammatory in interpretation.  


~Paul




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From: Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
To: Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 12:45:59 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] social interaction / dealing with disagreeable people...

Good points Tom. And Paul, over the entire trip last year, I only met one
person I didn't care to spend time with, and it was the constant stonedness,
and centrality of drugs that was the issue for me as well, but none of the
flaming rhetoric that occurs on the list.  I didn't meet anyone on trail who
was a flat out asshole.  And bonding with others on trail was a wonderful
part of the hike for me.  The morning might be spent talking music,
philosophy, art, beauty, health, food, sex, politics, love, or be just
quiet.  But the people and groups I hiked with, I really liked.  And it was
no problem bonding with new folks when extra zero's or a different pace
broke up a certain hiking group.  It was just great to get to know the new
bunch.  Some, however, I traveled 1,500 miles or more with, and felt just as
good about them at the end as at the begining.

You and Echo are two people who will never have a problem picking up friends
on trail.  That is clear to me from the begining sections we did together.
Tom's points about the relative anonymity of email posts is spot on.  It's
kind of akin to road rage, where the anonymity of not really having to look
another human in the face, can bring out the real jerk in many people.

Shroomer
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