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Do you consider yourself to be a serious person? I ask this, as at school I was always accused of being far too serious, and have since dedicated my life to lightening up.

Is it okay to treat everything seriously? How does one achieve balance?

― james, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Arguably I'm very flippant, but I have certain very strong beliefs. I tend to underplay them to avoid conflict, for right or wrong, but I'll speak up when I feel it is right.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Usually people think of me as serious, but I'm not around about four of my friends. It's a matter of degrees; I've never met anyone 100% seriously.

― Maria, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like this question and wrote a longish answer but deleted it. Yes, I do think I'm serious, perhaps too serious, and I'm probably viewed as a serious person as well. That said, my ex used to make fun of me because in my online profile that brought us together I describe myself as serious, and he thought that was a hoot. Still, I do insist I'm serious...

― Sean, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am not visibly serious, I use humour as a means of dissembling. I don't think I reveal my true beliefs to anyone- perhaps because I have not thought them out clearly enough. Its hard to get an unironic, or un'characterised' statement out of me. That would be too risky

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do consider myself to be deadly serious deep down. But seem to have teensy issues with appropriate times and places for letting it show - so it comes in fits and starts. Also sometimes I feel as if life is wearing the serious me down and giving me a brand new paper thin persona, which while quite boring in comparison, is probably easier on everyone.

The new me says - It's like, being serious is all hard work and stuff?

― Kim, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am very serious about the things i really give a shit about. sometimes i think people ae being serious when they aren't. but as a general attitude to life, i like to have fun, i love to laugh, and nothing is so serious to me that i get bogged down my it for too long.

― di, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I behave seriously at all the wrong times. On first dates, for example.

― turner, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so true.

― ethan, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

geoff=100% serious.

― Geoff, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I think I'm kind of a silly person, but a lot of people seem to think I take everything a bit too seriously.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 28 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I really wish now that I could be a bit more serious about things - but the shrug of idiocy/lameness will always get the better of me. If I were more serious it might help me get a better job and/or do something more constructive with my life. *sigh*

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I superserious, but I joke around a lot as part of my superserious plan to not let anybody know how deeply things affect me.

― Huck, Monday, 2 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It can sometimes frustrate me that lots of people really don't take me seriously at all, and think I'm this big ball of positive energy, when in reality I'm a very cynical person using humor as a defense against a world full of bullshit. But generally, as long as I know how I truly feel about the world, my attitude is basically one of 'if you don't get how important this/that is to me, you can take a flying fuck'. Although well cloaked by my voluminous mirthful chuckle.

It seems like people start to catch on to my particular type of cynicism when they realize most of my heartiest laughs come when I'm reading the fucking NEWSPAPER.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 August 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM for me nickalicious