Most of the time it is a lie when charismatic people greet you. They don't care about what you are doing, they want to let you know how you are doing. They tend to be self absorbed. That is my problem with them. When they have the most entertaining story I wonder how much of it is fact, and what parts are just fiction. They hide all of their problems and their lives are facades.
Hopefully I am not the only person looking beyond their mask. If someone is neurotic and flustered I am drawn to them. They actually appear to be humans to me, not some demi-god granting me with their gift of entertaining me. If fact as horrible as it sounds the more problems a person has the more I am drawn to them. I want to be able to solve their hypothetical jigsaw puzzle. I don't want to fix them like Humpty Dumpty, I just want to understand why they tic? Why they just have to fall apart with no need to put back together again.
I straddle the line. Of being sane and completely scatterbrained. Completely neurotic with quarks. Quarks are what make regular non-charismatic people endearing. They have a sense of honesty that can draw people to them.
Instead of drawing people to you with the mystical gift of charisma, you could just be a human, that works too.


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