Lazarus Larkin
jettisoned corpse
To me, annoying people and/or assholes are like real life; the problem doesn't go away by pushing an ignore button and there will always be more of them out there you'll encounter again.
A lot of things in the world piss me off and the only way to truly ignore them all is to stay in my house like a hermit and never talk to anyone, or go live in a cave in the woods.
I personally find it better to realize most of the world/people suck and to grow a thicker skin towards it instead of running away or getting offended at things. You really will be much happier for it.
The only reason I'd ignore someone is if I had gotten in a fight with them and was tired of seeing their bullshit replies to me or if they were harassing me on a constant basis.
I have considered ignoring a few people just because I was sick of looking at their existence, though.
That's great advice and all, but just thinking "I will stop letting this bother me!" doesn't make it actually stop bothering you.
If I could magically be happy and confident just by wanting to be life would be way easier is all I'm saying
You're right, it takes a lot of will power. However, you can choose to be offended. It stops bothering you if you just don't care and realize none of this s**t matters.
If you wanna be happy and confident, make yourself happy and confident, nobody else is gonna do it for you.
Where I was coming from with my feelings on it, is that I get really angry at bigotry. Unfortunately, it is everywhere, especially if you are a minority group trying to enjoy something, only to be put down constantly and even harassed by the majority group who think you don't belong based on gender, race, age, etc..
You can't simply just ignore it, and fighting it all the time is extremely tiring and just makes your life miserable.
Sometimes you just have no choice but to learn to deal with things and move on. Realize it just doesn't matter in your life.
For me, learning to accept and tolerate bigotry is far more serious and requires a lot more willpower than caring about some random stranger on Gaia pissing me off enough to consider putting them on my ignore list. They couldn't possible annoy me enough in comparison to what I've experienced over the years. It's like getting upset that an ant bit your arm when for the past decade you've been dealing with killer beehive attacks.
Edit: I also wanted to include that in the real world, there is no Ignore button. Maybe in school and on websites we have someone or some way of hiding ourselves from the real world when something bothers or upsets us, but out there, with so many people in the world doing all sorts of things you might not agree with, it just comes off very immature and childish to run to an ignore button. Like people can't deal with life issues so they'd rather just hide from it and pretend they don't exist.