Cliques In The Forming.
When my guests arrived for the party last night, I was quickly faced with a nightmare. The guests, who were made up by family, regular friends and colleagues, immediately condensed into 3 cliques with a few individuals hanging round the fringes not knowing if they belong or not.
But after a while I saw one of my fishing buddies talking to an academic about good fishing spots and they were soon joined by one of my cousins with a similar interest. Further on, near the bar counter, 4 people were discussing modern chess openings and at another spot, a small cluster were discussing the reasons for our local rugby team’s defeat the previous weekend. In another place a few ladies were exchanging email addresses in order to obtain a recipe or two.
As the evening proceeded groups formed and dissolved all the time. The cliques were broken… or were they merely replaced by other cliques?
Of course a few of the academics stuck together – talking shop - while a few of the others remained unattached drifting from one group to another. So funny, they were the first to leave.
Cliques are the natural way in which we group ourselves unknowingly by sticking to people with the same interest. And just as we surround ourselves with people thinking the same as us, we also avoid those who think different. It is natural selection process.
And then if you want to join a group and they don’t want you there for some reason or another… you blame the clique.
Or if you are so unique that you cannot fit into any group... you blame the clique.
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cliques. And the one who is left out, either gets fired or leaves 90 percent of the time, or becomes the boss, everyone hates.
These are your individuals, who are all or nothing star signs, often ending up on the streets or in crime mentally disturbed with nothing.
An interesting interpretation.
Yes, another very important component of a party. Do you think all the gatecrashers will clique together?
we are on the same gates brother
if you break one
i will crash another.
I Have never tried to gatecrash a party, but I must do so some time. just to get the feel of it.
I just lightly closed the door.
and said to myself, and hoping she would trust me.
see no evil, hear no evil.
ok, this was about 2am in the morning. Still till this day, I dont know what the hell she was upto or got herself involved in.
Thought provoking.
I'd rather be unique and comfortable than try to be somebody I am not. I'm the one on the fringes. I like to have one foot in, one foot out....and nearest to the door, thanks...
You mean like a clique of outcasts? I wonder if they will be as snobbish as some other cliques
Exactly, and they're out to get us!
The humans does like tobe alone with him-slef
He goes mad by his mind.
Being in a clique he does not think for him slef
He will never ask who am I in a CLIQUE
Knowing one-slef is not going to happen in a CLIQUE
There are some roads in life only I alone must walk
There are things tobe seen that only a only I can see.
But after all of this its nice to have friends come back to.
Walk good.
And speak no evil to0 I presume.
It is always best strategy to stay near a door.
Just think how bad it will be if a clique get so big that the members form cliques within the clique.
Guess some Kitties don't take to joining cliques...
now that does technically sound as a windows-only mouse.
Hmm, mostly yes but sometimes you are part of a clique without knowing it. A clique seldom have a purpose other than grouping people together. It is just like that. Even in your circle of friends you will fins cliques. Not necessarily undermining each other.
I like it.
But then we can belong to several cliques as the same time. Sometimes with overlapping members.
Or a cat emulating a mouse.
...
See, that is where I would have gone wrong. I would have specialized their training.
Maybe this is the reason why I am always happy?
I have never been part of a clique always on the outside
yup of course that would be me
No, you cannot buy yourself into a clique but if you're rich enough you will find yourself welcome in almost any clique. That is if you are prepared to put your money where your mouth is.
That is what happens if you put your family, friends, colleagues and their wives together in the same location. Luckily I was the host and had the excuse to drift around to make everybody feel at home.
Suppose my invite's still in the post.
But being in a clique does not rob you of your identity. Cliques are formed and disbanded dynamically on demand. If you are no longer happy with the clique you move in you simply step out. If you are a stranger on a place and see one of your friends conversing with another, you will join them. That is a clique.
also, why get involved in something, when I know, I would be arrested or not believed or something.
No, it was her problem and her doing and if that bloke was abusing her, why should I be the one to put her in prison for some a......
I know how the world works,
hear no evil, do no evil, see no evil.
the banging of glasses together is only recommended with beer mugs. But then drinking is a mugs game. The bigger the mug, the better.
Hmm, what shall I say? Yes dear. See I learn from previous mistakes.