Human contact seems desperately important, but many people are constantly annoyed by others because there seems to be a general lack of logic and respect. Many Americans feel entitled and like to be sinister and sarcastic all the time, and they tend to get real comfortable with others, whom they do not really know, and it can create conflict. In some cultures, people are generally serious and do not like to joke around with random people or have people pumping them for information. However, when some are joking around with others and say something rude and the person finally responds in kind, Americans tend to get “scared.” The process of being “scared” is a tactic to label people you do not like as a threat, get others to confirm this and have them removed from their environment. However, the person deemed as a threat may actually not really be threatening in anyway.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 8

Sometimes people feel overwhelmed by unnecessary conversations or gossip. This is why we have education, sports, TV, and music. The purpose is to get people to communicate about things that are of general interest to others. I do not know much about sports, but usually guys talk about sport. I have some general knowledge of different teams and plays and can engage in conversations when require. Even though I am not big on sports, I was raised to work for a corporation and our educators wanted to make sure that we were fluid in the art of conversation because communication is very important. Sometimes people will pull out of a deal because they find the prospect boring. Often times business people want to form relationships with the people they are doing commerce with because they want to know you care about more than just their money.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 8

Also, most people do not want to sit around and talk about the same things every day. I live in a high rise building and it is a living hell because the manager just lets the tenants act all wild and talk loud and disrespect others residence and the general public. My dad came to visit me over the weekend, and someone mistook him for me, and told him, “Sir, you are not allowed in this building.” This person who addressed him was a misfit, but he did not attack her appearance, but told her, “Fuck you people and this raggedy ass building. Y’all get on my nerves.” Now other people that live here have had the same complaints. A guest comes to visit them, is greeted by a resident, and jammed up about who they are here to see or what they are doing in this building. You can tell many of these people have never had anything before because they act like this high rises is so exclusive and private beach club.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 8

Now, these is a group of women who like to cruise the building and feel like it is their job to micromanage other people. You get in the elevator to go to your apartment and they will say hello, and then ask you what you are doing. I mean, clearly, if I am going up in the elevator, I am on my way to my apartment. You really do not need to know any more information. These people sit around and all they do is talking about this apartment building like it is the only thing that exists, and many of them do not seem to have much of a life nor go anywhere. Then they sit outside in huge groups and make loud noises, smoke and drink liquor and scare the people who walk by the building to the point they make sure to avoid the area by going another direction. I kid you not, these people are up from 6am to 3am, outside talking so loudly that people in the houses nearby will yell and tell them to shut up.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 8

I used to have to go to bed at 7pm because this man used to wake up at 2am and host summits on the curbside like it the afternoon on a weekend. One night my dad came to visit me and was confronted by the man who sits out in front of the building, as he was trying to call me from the call box on the gate. I guess he did not have his glasses on and could not see well. I am not sure why the management is so unprofessional. However, if you had a car with the horn honking at ungodly hours of the night, and every night, someone would track down the owner or have the car towed away, but yet, it is okay for these people to holler and scream at the tops of their lungs like they lost their minds and the police are never called nor any noise violations filed?  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 8

I really did not mean to waste my time ranting about these derelict apartment building, but just wanted to point out that people are so sensitive and like to joke around, but do not realize that their jokes and loud talking is also considered offensive. People require space and like to be respected, and some people are serious and do not want to speak to the same people every day, nor hear the same things every day. It can get really hard to when you walk in the door and have to talk to ten people before you get upstairs to your apartment, and that is not normal. I looked at other high rises in the area and never see anyone in the lobbies and they are always quiet. However, this one particular building stands out because it is so loud. I am always tired because I am busy and do not sleep more than four hours a night.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 8

As we look at all of this, we see that there is a wonderful payoff in return for our willingness to let go of the negative feelings. When I sit with my friends, I find our conversation tend to be more about present experiences and less about past history. I find myself interested in what is here and now, in this moment, rather than trying to piece together a “story” the mind can cling to. Most people, of course prefer a good self-image to a negative self-image, and a good story to a bad story who they are, and what their lives are about. Suffering ends when we are free from taking others stories about us as truth.  When we work without judgment, we work without an agenda. We are not required to fix anyone, or improve anything. There is no one with an agenda of what should happen. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 8

It is possible to love what is here even when the apparent others hate it. This love lets everything be exactly what it is. Its action may need to stop one thing (harm for example) in a given moment, or encourage something else, but not because it is refusing to see what is here. Its action is wise because it does not refuse the moment as it actually is. Keep yourself to yourself. Before you call someone else crazy, perhaps you should tune in to your own mental health and have yourself evaluated. We do not have to create stories to sustain, or stories to deny our experience. Neither do we have to try to be compassionate, or learn to be loving. When each individual has subdued their own spirit, then there will be no war and no other enemies to conquer. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 8