Double Edged Social Life

Greetings everyone 🙌

I didn't think about it at all to come up with the answer to this week's prompt in the Hivenaija community, which says:

Would you call yourself a social person or not? As a social person, how are you able to keep up with your activities and maintain your social life? As a non-social person, are you comfortable with it? Is there any way it has affected your relationship with others?

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I have two sides to this,
and they operate differently,
which I've tried to blend into one,
but it couldn't just work,
and it resulted in me always frowning at people that always talk badly about introverted people that are finding it hard to flow with people.
We are created uniquely with different traits, and there's a reason why it's like that. There's no need to force oneself to pull out of one's lifestyle to please others.

This brings me to my first lifestyle, which is NON-SOCIAL PERSON in my REAL LIFE.
I wanted to categorize myself as social because I get very social when I'm in the midst of people I'm comfortable with, but that's a no. We cannot always be with people we are comfortable with in life because we'll get to travel, relocate, and mingle with different kinds of people. If one is only social when comfortable, then it'll take a long duration to adapt.

I'm someone who loves my space so much. I'm hardly seen sitting in someone's shop to be gisting; instead, the few people I mingle with come to mine. But this has a backlash because it always gives them the sense of "He feels too big, he doesn't mingle with people, and many others." Many times, I may want to go out to be this social person, greeting everyone with open arms in the hood just to let them know I am not feeling too big to mingle with them, but it's not in me. It's so difficult.
So the highest I do is to make sure that I say hello to everyone in the street whenever I'm going out to buy something or just walking out.

There was a day I was passing by and heard street people talking in a low tone about how 'personal' I live. I just smile because they don't know I love that lifestyle.
I know it's not good and it's kinda affecting the people in my street in patronizing what I do, that's why I try to be deeply friendly anytime they come around, just to let them know I can be very social once we are connected.

Just for business sake, I've been pushing to be a social person in real life and it's really difficult.

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I'm a very SOCIAL PERSON ONLINE.
Not bragging, I have this loads of humor that easily gets connected with someone with or without humor, and it has connected me a lot with people on this Blockchain. When we talk of friends, my friendship level is 100 online, while that of real life is 0. When I say friends, I mean people that I'm deeply connected to that we have some good bonding to some extent.

I have a particular friend that till today, keep accusing me of going around to ask people in the blockchain for friendship and I always return to her, asking her if I begged her for friendship when we met. Lol

Due to my social life online, especially here, I've been able to meet people that ordinarily, due to big differences and level of life, we wouldn't be able to tangle.

My social life online is very high!

Thank you for reading.

_{This is my entry to Hivenaija prompt of the week}

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