What are your weaknesses?

[Away 2,077]

One weakness I have is that I don't usually apologize even when I know I'm wrong. I think the biggest reason why is because I'm afraid that my apology won't be accepted. That's actually happened to me before and it feels horrible. It makes me feel weak and vulnerable. So apologizing isn't really the issue, it's the fear of being turned down. This fear of rejection ultimately leads to why I'm shy as well. But when I don't apologize or when someone apologizes first, I feel like a complete jerk. Something like this happened today and I just felt like I needed to vent. I feel a little bit better now.

 

So what do you have that you consider a weakness? Feel free to tell me and vent all you want here. I'm listening.

Edited August 17, 2013 by Twilight Sparkle
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[~Sole~ 852]

My emotions are my weakness. If I get angry enough i can't controle myself, if I'm sad enough I lose myself in depression... I'm so passionate about some things, so my emotions are hard to controle. Its like my mom always said, I wear my heart on my sleeve.

[Guyra 56]

SOCKS! socks and sweeters are mah weakness....at least if it includes ponies that is, In real life I never tend to show any kind of weakness or emotion when Im talking with mah friends, I got waaay too deep into the path of dissonance to care about stuff like that.

[Away 2,077]

My emotions are my weakness. If I get angry enough i can't controle myself, if I'm sad enough I lose myself in depression... I'm so passionate about some things, so my emotions are hard to controle. Its like my mom always said, I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I'm kinda like that too. Except less when I'm angry and more when I'm sad. Like you said, there's just some things that I'm so passionate about. You really hit the nail on the head on that one.

[Dark Moon 965]

Mainly Kryptonite. Every time that stuff is near me I just seem to get weak and vulnerable. 

 

Okay my real weakness would have to be my condition of Aspergers Syndrome. While it does have some perks, I pretty screwed in the socializing department. I suck at making and maintaining conversations, which really hurts me. I also have an unreasonable fear of ketchup, far beyond just not liking it's taste. I wouldn't say my emotions are a weakness. If anything, they empower me and give me a reason to live.

Edited June 4, 2013 by Dark Moon

[~Luminiferous Ether~ 107]

Thinking Deeply, I can see no end to the sadness and corruption in the world, and my atheism makes faith hard (Not sure why)

 

I also have hardcore cognitive dissonance which is annoy >

[TomokoKuroki 1,707]

A guess a weakness of mine would be my emotions. I tend to be on the extreme with emotions sometimes. Typically what happens is I'll be fine, and once something happens the emotion takes over; and I'll seem depressed, cold, even hateful at times. I don't take it out on people, it's more like my personality slightly changes from my normal self; into a more serious and cold person.

[Away 2,077]

Thinking Deeply, I can see no end to the sadness and corruption in the world, and my atheism makes faith hard (Not sure why)

Well I'm atheist too, so I can understand the difficulty in having faith. I think it's the fact that I refuse to just believe in something without any logical reason, such as evidence.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

Well I'm fucking awful at math, that and I'm have low self esteem. I don't like being around people, in fact I hate people. I could probably go on forever but I'll stop there.

[Stellafera 3,836]

I let myself be pushed around far too much by my fears and insecurities. This leads to the major thing that I am weak to; namely, guilt tripping. Guilt has to be one of my most crippling emotions; it's hard to figure out how much of it is for good cause and how much is just unhealthy. I have a nasty tendency to lash out at people or things that make me feel guilty, which just feeds the cycle. It's one of my few raw nerves, but it's a frightening one (or so I've been told) to be on the receiving end of. 

[Away 2,077]

Well I'm fucking awful at math, that and I'm have low self esteem. I don't like being around people, in fact I hate people. I could probably go on forever but I'll stop there.

You don't have to stop there. You can go on if you want to. The point of this thread is to vent out your frustrations that come from your weaknesses. I personally think it's good to vent every once in a while. And I'm not exactly a people person either.

 

I let myself be pushed around far too much by my fears and insecurities. This leads to the major thing that I am weak to; namely, guilt tripping. Guilt has to be one of my most crippling emotions; it's hard to figure out how much of it is for good cause and how much is just unhealthy. I have a nasty tendency to lash out at people or things that make me feel guilty, which just feeds the cycle. It's one of my few raw nerves, but it's a frightening one (or so I've been told) to be on the receiving end of.

 

I get that tendency to lash out at things or people that make me feel guilty too. It kinda ties in with my difficulty of apologizing. Sometimes I do it without thinking. Other times I do it to hide how I'm really feeling.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

You don't have to stop there. You can go on if you want to. The point of this thread is to vent out your frustrations that come from your weaknesses. I personally think it's good to vent every once in a while. And I'm not exactly a people person either.

Well fine then, I like poetry. I don't give a fuck how "unmanly" it is, I still like poetry. I'm not a very happy person, I may look so but I'm really not. I like dark and gory stuff, people think it's weird but they can all go fuck themselves.

[Away 2,077]

Well fine then, I like poetry. I don't give a fuck how "unmanly" it is, I still like poetry. I'm not a very happy person, I may look so but I'm really not. I like dark and gory stuff, people think it's weird but they can all go fuck themselves.

I find nothing wrong with those things at all. In fact, I hate whatever society's stupid notion of what 'normal' is in the first place. To me, 'normal' is just a bullshit term anyways.

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

If a certain topic gets mentioned or conveyed through context, it'll open up some old wounds and will make me want to push myself in a corner and snivel.

 

Shame and pain make me lose control of myself...... It'll make me do things that don't make sense for the sole sake of distracting myself from those feelings.

 

When it comes to arguing, I can sometimes be very sharp with my words, especially when it's something I can answer with logical integrity while leaving little room for ambiguity, so even though I may be correct, the other person would have been instilled with fear instead of clarity, which is the opposite of the kind of environment where learning can happen.

 

I like to believe I have the right answers, especially when I can be technical in my explanation.

[Dark Moon 965]

 

 

I find nothing wrong with those things at all. In fact, I hate whatever society's stupid notion of what 'normal' is in the first place. To me, 'normal' is just a bullshit term anyways.

My thoughts exactly. Fuck normalcy, just because something is normal doesn't mean that it is right. I wish more people realized that, the world would be a much better place. I could care less about what people think of my interests. Screw mainstream. 

 

While I'm here I guess I should post some more weaknesses. Every once in a while I kind of become guilty of letting peer pressure get the best of me. I never talk shit about anyone though, thankfully. I also have an incredibly huge fear of rejection which has also hurt me quite a lot as well. I used  to have the weakness of being a spineless punching bag before highschool, thankfully I have grown a backbone since then. I also hate change in general (goes with the mental disorder), which makes me somewhat stubborn. 

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I don't have a weakness, except one.. The skill of socializing. Although I have been improving and maybe I will get over it. Then it would mean I have no weaknesses.. Well except cute Derpy pics.

[Yamato 1,348]

My weaknesses? Marmots, authority figures, nihilists, serious relationships, Asian-Americans peeing on my rug (that rug really tied the room together, man...), you know, stuff like that...

[Away 2,077]

I also have an incredibly huge fear of rejection which has also hurt me quite a lot as well.

I fear rejection as well. I act distant whenever I meet new people but it's only to hide my shyness. Being distant just protects my emotions from being hurt.

[NightOwl 912]

My weakness is I lack social skills I have a hard time trying to engage in a conversation with someone. I'm also very shy and reserved person. 

Edited May 25, 2013 by NightOwl

[Ghost 173]

  One of my weaknesses is my shyness, which I'm working to overcome.  I find it hard to initiate a conversation, but if someone else starts, I have no problem talking with them.  I can't tell you how many times I wanted to talk to someone I thought was interesting, but just couldn't bring myself to do it.  I'm not as bad as I used to be, but not quite over my shyness either.  

 

  There are also times when I've met people and end up not getting their contact info.  For some reason I think I'm being too forward by asking and think that they wouldn't give it to me, which could be a fear of rejection.  I feel awkward asking, but when I don't ask I've always regretted it, especially since many move or their schedules change and I never see them later on.  Again, I'm working on fixing this. 

[Diamond* 531]

I seriously, don't even know! I mean I can't think of anything that's my weakness. I am really thinking about what would be my weakness.. No idea.

[Commander Urdnot 2,680]

My weaknesses? Why do you want to know that? Are you trying to undermine me? Are you thinking about assassinating me?

Good luck, friend. I got ADT installed at my house, nothing can hurt me! My house is a heavily-fortified fortress. No one enters... No one leaves,

Except me.

 

In all seriousness though,

The people I love are both my strength and weakness. They are always there with me during both the good times, and the bad times, and I'm always there with them too. We are always there for each other. Laughing or crying. Smiling or frowning. Easy or difficult. Having fun or talking about our problems. We are always there with eachother, and we always tackle everything that comes our way... Together. Their strengths are mine, and mine are theirs. My weaknesses are theirs, and theirs are mine too. We do everything together as a team.

 

It's not easy for me to bond with someone. I've always been an independent, skeptical person who prefers doing their own thing. I've always preferred doing things alone. I find it very difficult to put even a modicum of trust or faith into anyone or anything. Besides the people that I love. While I do have my doubts at times, I know deep down that I can trust them, because I love them, and I know that they love me too. Bonding with me takes an immense amount of time, patience, and heart. The process is much like the turning coal into diamond. You start out with just a chunk of coal. A cold, dark piece of coal. But if you pick it up, and give it an immense amount of warmth, work, time, effort, and love, it becomes a diamond. One of the most durable, beautiful,  and precious things in the world. Once I bond with someone, once that... Connection is formed between us, I end up doing more than just loving them, and being there with them... I end up depending on them, I end up needing them to get by.

 

I'd do anything for the people that I love, and they would do anything for me too. Because we're a team. And it's nice to know that there are people that actually care about me, and it's nice to know that I can be somebody that actually cares about them too. To be able to give them the same sense of comfort and warmth as they give me.

 

Just the thought of them getting hurt, just the thought of something bad happening to them tears me up. When the people I love get hurt, I always feel bad. If something devastating, or especially bad ever happened to them, if they ever got hurt, or worse... I'd be devastated, it would destroy me.

 

If somebody that I loved did something to intentionally hurt me, or if they ended up betraying me, that would destroy me too. I bond so closely with the people that I love. The idea of someone I loved doing that to me... Is devastating. If it happened, it would destroy me.

 

There you have it, my strength and my weakness... Love.

 

Edited May 25, 2013 by Commander Urdnot

[MuniMoose 489]

ours is we're very easy to put down

simple things can just get us all depressed and we try to hide that it would

and it could even be actions or situations that are not really as bad as we make out

sometimes that could be someone just doesn't talk to us when we as them how their doing or if they want to hang

and it is they just didn't see that we asked on skype or in a text

so ya thats ours

[BlackestBrony 0]

Honestly, I have too many weaknesses to list. I'm that much a train wreck.

But, the biggest one is spiders. They horrify me. They look like unshaved, living hands with poison and sentience.

Edited May 25, 2013 by Mr.Bones

[Away 2,077]

There are also times when I've met people and end up not getting their contact info.  For some reason I think I'm being too forward by asking and think that they wouldn't give it to me, which could be a fear of rejection.  I feel awkward asking, but when I don't ask I've always regretted it, especially since many move or their schedules change and I never see them later on.  Again, I'm working on fixing this.

 

You're not alone. I always feel awkward asking for someone's contact info as well. I fear they might think that I'm being too pushy. And then if I do get their contact info, I don't even know what to do with it. I fear I might call or text them to soon or not even know what to say when I do.