Am I a stalker?

When I meet people, I try my best to remember their names, and their faces. I try to repeat their names multiple times and say it as much as possible so that I can remember them. I truly do think it's the ultimate respect to be given to someone, by remembering them. Of course you also have to remember possibly where you met them, possibly some things they said, and why you remember them, what you shared with them. All these things, I try to do my best to do. I know that some people don't hold this desire as much as myself, and I don't hold anything against them for that. They can forget me if they wish, that's their choice, no problem with that.

So that brings me back to my original question, let's say I remember all the details of meeting someone, name, possibly what they do, where they work, what we talked about perhaps, the littlest detail. And then I meet them again and am able to rattle off all those details, why do people think it's so weird that I remember these details. I totally try to value the relationships with people, and in doing that I remember the things that I share with people. If someone tells me something, I try my hardest to remember what they said to me. So why is that so weird? I would be happy if people remember the important things I tell them. However, such is not the case. Even when sharing some of my deepest secrets and those people forget, well although I wish that they remember those things I tell them, what can I do? What can I do?

The last half hour I was reading someones blog. Someone I talked to over two years ago, have not talked to since, however over the last few months we share something in common and I don't even know if they remember me. So here's my take on this, people who blog are sharing, and thus open to everyone to read, and you should not be surprised if people read it. If you don't want someone to know something about you, don't post it. Anyways, so as I was saying I spent the last half hour reading this one person's blog and now I like know all this stuff about this person and I wonder how this person would react if I suddenly was talking to them, and knew all these things about them. I truly do think they'd be weirded out and think, this guy must be a stalker. And believe me, it's not the first time something along those lines have happened. So what if I like to read peoples' blogs, they are meant to be read.

Anyways, one thing I've learned to do is to ask questions instead of starting right off with the answers that I know. For example, a few weeks ago I read someone else's blog, we'll call this person AA. So I read AA's blog and was quite surprised with some of the things there, so when I was with AA I asked them simple questions so that all those answers that I read on the blog, AA has now told me. I found it to be quite a good way to get all that information out in the open. Sure I guess you can call it manipulating, but we gotta start at the same starting point and I must get us there somehow. cause otherwise I may be working a few steps ahead of AA. Anyways, conversation was great cause then I could ask the questions I truly wanted to ask.

However, blogs are such a great tool to catch up on peoples' lives. Now some may think it's such a distant way of doing so and a phone call is such better interaction. But we simply meet so many people these days that we have a hard time doing so. And we are an internet generation so why not use it.