People and Dogs
Jul. 19th, 2005 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebPeriodically I find myself feeling about people the way I feel about dogs. I like them and I want them to be happy, but I don't want to have to actually be around them.
See, dogs have a different culture that I just don't like much, and I don't feel comfortable in dog culture.
For example, when dogs meet someone new, they like to figure out their relative statuses right away, so they know how to continue. It makes perfect sense. However, I like to pretend that we all have the same status, and I have issues with wielding power, and I find status to be one of the least interesting things to learn about someone.
For another example, dogs like to communicate via odor. I would not feel comfortable leaving liquid news at lofty points on lamp posts, nor do I much care about this sort of news (as far as I can tell). My favored communication medium is words, but dogs have small vocabularies, most of which I don’t understand.
Sometimes when I am hanging around groups of people drawn together by things like job choice, hobby choice, or transportation mode, I feel like I am in the midst of a similarly alien subculture. I feel I have little in common with these people and nothing to say to them. I have nothing against them and would like them all to be happy, but I'd really rather be somewhere else.
See, dogs have a different culture that I just don't like much, and I don't feel comfortable in dog culture.
For example, when dogs meet someone new, they like to figure out their relative statuses right away, so they know how to continue. It makes perfect sense. However, I like to pretend that we all have the same status, and I have issues with wielding power, and I find status to be one of the least interesting things to learn about someone.
For another example, dogs like to communicate via odor. I would not feel comfortable leaving liquid news at lofty points on lamp posts, nor do I much care about this sort of news (as far as I can tell). My favored communication medium is words, but dogs have small vocabularies, most of which I don’t understand.
Sometimes when I am hanging around groups of people drawn together by things like job choice, hobby choice, or transportation mode, I feel like I am in the midst of a similarly alien subculture. I feel I have little in common with these people and nothing to say to them. I have nothing against them and would like them all to be happy, but I'd really rather be somewhere else.