The social skills a person cultivates have a direct effect on his or her lifestyle. A person with good social skills will have a gregarious and active social life that will dictate what they do with their time. A person with few or poor social skills is not necessarily doomed to unhappiness, but will live a different life no matter what.
Person A has good interpersonal /group interactions skills. He will be considered an addition to parties, workplaces and social events based on these skills alone. Therefore, his schedule will be regularly full with places to go and people to see. The result being that he has contacts and friendships to draw on for assistance and ideas in the business world. His lifestyle will reflect a person who can go where he wants and wears appropriate clothing. This person will appear to be what everyone thinks is the status quo.
Person B has few interpersonal /group interaction skills. She rarely goes out to parties, is rarely noticed at work and may not be invited to any social events. Her schedule is wide open, but that doesn’t help if no one invites her anywhere. She may instead form habits of solitude writing, reading or going to the theater or cinema. She doesn’t bother with clothing or accessories and so has more expendable income to spend on solitary games, movies and food. The quieter lifestyle also lends itself to quieter pursuits.
Person C may have no social skills. He is often completely ignored. He tends to bounce around jobs as no one puts up with his boorish behavior. If he is ever invited to parties it is solely because he has found some power and uses it brutally to force himself on others. He will ever be accepted and his lifestyle will quickly reflect this as he overcompensates for his hurt feelings.
The overall social skills of a person have a direct effect on that person’s lifestyle. How you approach your own set of skills decides how happy you will be.
My first rave
As I was preparing for my first rave, a friend told me that I absolutely had to bring glow sticks. I wasn’t sure what he was talking about at first, so I went online to check them out. They looked like a lot of fun and I ordered a few to take with me. Once we arrived, I could see why he had clued me in – everyone was dancing with glow sticks in the darkened room and it looked amazing.
I joined the mob on the dance floor and began to flow with the music using my glow sticks as both an accessory and a prop, accentuating every move as I melted into the crowd and had the best night of my life.