Do you consider yourself shallow?

Post Reply New Topic

Someone in another thread made me think about the difference between what you feel and what you read-from/write-to the social environment.

What defines a shallow person?
Is it strictly emotional?
Is it based on how you socialize?
Can you be a social flat-liner, but also write touching poetry?

What exactly should this classification mean?

Depth is based on how much thought and what dimension of thought goes into a decision, a perspective, or action, to me. The variable can't matter.

I'm from Omaha and saw 311 a couple years ago when they played a free concert in Memorial Park. They're cool guys.

Well, without some degree of physical attraction I really can't have romantic interest in someone. I'm attracted to most of the women I see though.

No, do you?

I don't consider myself shallow
I consider that to be about caring more about material things which I barely do at all.
Emotionally I don't know I am pretty detached every now and then but that's not really shallow.
I also write poems from time to time...I don't know how good they turn out.

No, not shallow. "You think too much" is something I've heard quite often.

Having a full set of Thomas the Tank engine videos might give someone the wrong impression.
But the shelves of philosophy and theology one of my (few) friends described as "just scary"

I'd be happier if I was shallow, no place to incubate all this "stuff."

Sometimes.

Although it would be cool to be completley non shallow.

Sometimes.

I don't consider myself shallow now. But before about age 20, for sure. Not because I was an a$$ to people (but I certainly was sometimes), but just in terms of depth of emotion. I'm not talking about how one evaluates the opposite sex, although that is a component of what I mean.
I understand that we may not sense or display emotion like normal people, but do we still have the same emotions?