My experiences and the things I have been reading over the last year or so have made me realize that people are actually all a bunch of idiots who don’t deserve my respect. Having lost respect for people I no longer worry so much any more about what they will think of me when I talk to them.
I found that people who are of a lower social status than me are much easier to talk to because you don’t have to respect them and that means you just say whatever you like without thinking too much about it. I then found that people of higher social status are all idiots and that put them in a lower status for me which means I can now talk to them easily.
I now try to base my opinion of the status of a person not on their social status but on my own opinion of what their status is to me. Anyone who is intelligent and can think for themself ranks highly with me and the same with good and honest people.
It does still present me with the problem of speaking freely to people I think deserve respect but at the same time it has widened my conversation base. By practising conversation on the idiots I hope to improve my ability to speak to even the people I think are worth talking to.
