"friend" pretended not to see me
Anyone have this experience? What do you think it means?
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
Here are a couple of examples I know of . Neither one might be the explanation in your case, but they give an indication of the kind of thing that might be going on.
A friend of mine was walking down the street and saw a woman he knew coming toward him. He waved and smiled, but she kept a stone cold face, avoided his gaze, as she walked into a liquor store.
She has a drinking problem. She was ashamed of what she was doing and so did not acknowledge him. Or , perhaps another way to look at it, she was leading two lives (as addicts tend to), and a "crossover" between her two lives was stressful.
As for an example involving myself, I remember when I was a student and knew another student through the Catholic organization on campus. She eventually stopped going to Mass, and when I would see her in other settings she would act as if she did not see me.
We all have multiple aspects of ourselves within us. Sometimes we freeze up when two of our worlds collide with each other.
A friend of mine was walking down the street and saw a woman he knew coming toward him. He waved and smiled, but she kept a stone cold face, avoided his gaze, as she walked into a liquor store.
She has a drinking problem. She was ashamed of what she was doing and so did not acknowledge him. Or , perhaps another way to look at it, she was leading two lives (as addicts tend to), and a "crossover" between her two lives was stressful.
As for an example involving myself, I remember when I was a student and knew another student through the Catholic organization on campus. She eventually stopped going to Mass, and when I would see her in other settings she would act as if she did not see me.
We all have multiple aspects of ourselves within us. Sometimes we freeze up when two of our worlds collide with each other.