How would you deal with a....??

Question

a... (hmmm, so called) friend who constantly breaks the stream of your thoughts (serious thoughts, proper thoughts, important theories concerning the universe, of course!!!) with their hilarious answers? Shouldn't they be serious too out of solidarity if they call themselves friends??

How would you reply to a person who brings in the hilarious idea of an air conditioning when you're contemplating the high spheres of the concepts of love??

Answer 1

When I don't have an answer for something philosophical or I feel uncomfortable, I will often change the subject with a joke subconsciously.

Also, making jokes about love, why it doesn't happen for some, why it seems there is no one perfectly right for one person, why it is so fleeting and hard to find in its purest form, is an easy way out. It seems like such a high improbability that I will ever find anyone based on circumstances as they are in our universe, so I just take that and run with it. Also she/he may feel very unloved, left out romantically, like they don't have any serious input to contribute because they are not in the dating scene (or even close).

I often throw people off when they think I am being silly too, when in reality I am talking on the same tangent as them in a totally different direction. People don't pick up on my changes a lot, so they just laugh at them. :( Sometimes my mind is so far out there that even people on a higher thought process won't understand, not because of low intelligence, but because they are set in their ways of thinking and I try to break that. Who knows? I do my best to stay in other people's realms of thought when they are being philosophical.

If this in a large social setting and they are doing it to other people, they probably feel they have nothing to contribute to the cause other than laughter. I would just do that thinking out loud in the presence of others, or challenge her/him to come up with a reasonable explanation pertaining to the subject at hand. If you challenge them, they won't see it as an insult, and it will force them to think more along your lines. Or ask it in a different way.  

Answer 2

I'd love them, it would be boring if both of us were serious or goofy.

It's all about balance.

Love needs air conditioning to balance I guess. Such as alarm clocks need hammers and stuff...

Answer 3

Try not to drink on  an empty head

Answer 4

Ah, grasshopper -sometimes (even in matters of love) cooler heads must prevail!

Answer 5

Those with whom we have the greatest difficulty are our greatest teachers.

Answer 6

I guess I would tell them something like "this is not the kind of answer I want, and I need to have my concerns heeded in a thoughtful, but not cold, manner".

But since this is love we are talking about...even being serious will earn you answers that still do not unlock all the mysteries of love.

Still, you can see if what he/she tells you under his/her right mind will actually help you.

Answer 7

Try to do your thinking when they are not around.  And laugh when they are around.

Answer 8

i love Alice's way of portraying love making as a sport.and humor is the best medicine.of course it would depend on the thought of the time.humor would not be a necessity in the case of talking about a deceased relative.but if you were getting to antsy about being serious in a world full of nonessential babble something has got to break the monotony

Answer 9

What an air head she must be, tell her to take a chill pill, it's 5:00 in the morning here now & the heater doesn't work.

Answer 10

For some of us (Me Included) if a problem or question gets too real or too serious we fall back on humor. It is not intended to be disrespectful to our friends or loved ones if a person has been hurt almost beyond repair they fall into the realm where it's better to laugh and cut jokes than to maybe take a chance and expose a wound in their heart that has not nor is ever likely to heal.

Answer 11

What does friendship got to do with concurrence in thoughts, ideals, and aspirations whatever the case may be?. Unless you're a biased friend, then you would see the discrepancies which are affecting you mentally.

Individual differences, i may say, prevail but we still keep our emotions and affections to our dear friends intact. Hey, i could be working a manual labor but friends with a computer technician who works for world's most prominent and esteemed organization, until he finds out i couldn't excell the way he does in career, it turns out that he turns his back away from me. How do you cALL that?  a biased, assuming, and pretentious friend it is.

Answer 12

Why not try to find what is so hilarious about your thoughts? There might be something wrong with your thoughts.

Answer 13

I have no idea who that friend of yours could be, but, I think this friend is right.  Because air conditioning is what is needed when in love , since

- Two hearts are in fire

- Love makes people sweat. In palms, on face , all over

- Love making is a sport that needs cool temperatures.

I believe this friend was just realistic.  I like people who are practical and I would much appreciate if you could give me a link to ask for addition.

Answer 14

Gosh! I hate when that happens! That is so mean, inconsiderate and foolish! If I were you I'd probably do what I always do, tell them to bogger off and go back to their kinder garden classes! LOL! Honestly... Of course there's nothing wrong with being fun and making jokes but there's a time and place for that and if a person can't balance that then you should just tell them to go or just not talk about important things with them...

Have you tried telling them that? If there's no way they'll change their infantile ways then just move on and talk about these things with someone else!

Best wishes!

Answer 15

The way i see it is I would not have these thoughts if i was the same as everyone else. I dont mean like a yahoo answers club or anything i mean not many people think about things. Some dont want to talk about universal love and things. Friends are hard to come by so think twice before you get ride of em, unless they are doing it to make you unlucky and make them lucky instead. Seen that go down.

Answer 16

Being a friend does not always mean side lining with the other parson(friend).

may be you could consider giving the friend's idea a thought before trashing it.For a friend is one who will always tell you the truth, bitter or sweet.

Thanks for asking