How do they show their love? More From Thought Catalog. My Dark Paradise. Get our newsletter every Friday! You're in! See you Friday. I think "complicated" has a negative connotation--like difficult, but "complex" is more positive, like sophisticated. What are your thoughts? Complex means rich and deep. Like a complex multilayer beer vs a simple 1 note brew.
Virtual Insanity. Complex people are hard to understand but worth figuring out. Complicated people are not worth figuring out. Complicated is unnecessary chaos and usually frustrating and time wasting without an end.
Complicated is a word most used with the word 'mess' as in a complicated mess. Complex is like a math problem you may have to put some time in and look at it different ways, but there is some logic to it and eventually an answer. Unlike complicated, complex is also used to describe a planned out grouping of something - the building complex, the office complex, the apartment complex. Thought and planning. Someone else said 'layers' which is also a good way to describe it.
Complex suggests the unavoidable result of a necessary combining and does not necessarily imply a fault or failure a complex recipe. Complicated applies to what offers great difficulty in understanding, solving, or explaining complicated legal procedures. You just need to find someone whose crazy matches your crazy and whose baggage matches your baggage. And even if you don't find this crazy person, it's okay, there are a lot of other crazy people out there that make pretty good friends.
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When mistakes are made, they tend to be very forgiving because they understand that people are imperfect. In short, they are mature, sensible human beings. It might be wondered why everyone is not a complex person. The obvious answer is that it is a difficult thing to be.
Being complicated is easy-just find a nice assortment of personality flaws and keep developing them in ways that make you an incomprehensible minefield of unrestrained emotions and poor behavior. At the same time, refuse to accept that anyone else has problems and focus your attention entirely on the most important being in the universe that would be you. Being complex is difficult-you have to develop depth of character, emotional balance, patience, and an assortment of mature social skills.
And that is just the beginning. I found your website by accident and I must say, you are very very funny and an obsession with your blog may develop. I am sorry. Hello Philosopher…Your thoughts seem to be quite accurate. Would you agree on saying that following your reasoning it would take a complex person to deal with a complicated one? I found your description so accurate it was refreshing to know somebody out there pays attention to these things. I am a complex person and married for 15 years now to a complicated person.
We are a match made in heaven. However, point to note, I am not a masochist. Secondly, when my husband and I started dating, I was attracted to his philosophical views because I knew he would understand my complexities…which makes a complicated person attractive to me. It just so happens, he is also physically attractive! Interesting stuff…. So you ridicule people who are complicated?
You speak of maturity, and how a complicated person will lack that and be inconsistant. Anyone who calls themself a philosopher or intelligent, is usually a fool…. While I do take a somewhat flippant tone in the dialog, my view is based on years of experience with complicated people and the problems that have resulted from such interactions. I considered the essay part of the blog for some time. Hence, I am not quick to judge. I freely admit that I have run a mile in the shoes of a complicated person.
So, if I am ridiculing the complicated, I have also ridiculed myself. In retrospect, I should have made it much clearer that people are not eternally bound to such categories and that people can move between them.
It is also the case that people have their complex and complicated aspects. For example, a person might be complex in most ways, but complicated when it comes to dating. I do not think I am guilty of being immature. The inference I make seems to be a reasonable causal connection: if someone is complicated in the ways described, then this will tend to cause the results I describe.
I have had and will have my foolish moments, but I think my intelligence and philosophical credentials are well established. Then again, maybe they hand out doctorates to any fool…ditto for professorships and book contracts.
How do you talk to those who refuse to take responsibility for their actions? Hi, I thought your article about complicated vs. I suppose there may be alot of truth to your perceptions. I have a question for you. I feel better now. This would be something like the fox and the sour grapes the fox cannot reach the grapes, so he tells himself they are probably sour.
Interesting, all the interactions. Just one other example to consider, complexity is to complicated as procedural programming may be to oop. My ex wife found herself sitting beside my Senior Legal Counsel a very erudite man who she did not know on a plane and the conversation eventually I suppose came around to me.
Wife said that SC considers me to be a very complex person. Hence I thought that with a view to improving myself it might be in my best interest to try to determine what that term generally infers as I am presently looking for a new wife.
What if you are dealing with a person who enjoys being complicated!! We are both trying to prove our selves not easy to get through, complicated and hard to manage and understand!! I seriously dont know why are we doing this,am as well quite aware of how crazy it sounds and how much it makes no sense but i just cant see him win without proving that am just as complicated as him and that i do understand him but he is just not aware of that fact, and doesnt wanna accept it!
Yes, I do find it crazy and out of order what we both are doing but i just cant help it.. He sounds challenging and i am not the type of girl who would loose a challege! He seems to be trying his best to prove me how much he is complicated, he wastes lots of effort into it while i simply think that being complicated is what he wants to be and not what he really is.
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