My new acquaintance and I appear to have known each other the least, although with exceptions. Meeting through similar interests and belonging to the same friend groups, my acquaintance Victoria and I have known each other for a little over a year. Now, if I were brutally honest I never had much interest in being close friends with Victoria. Because of this, her and I have never had many, if any, self-disclosing conversations. And the questionnaires we filled out about each other reflected that. Victoria couldn’t have been further away from my favorite TV show, which is American Horror Story. She instead put Grey’s Anatomy. I couldn’t think of anything worse to force yourself to watch than a melodramatic hospital drama; just kill me now! I made similar mistakes in the area of the way I assumed Victoria handled conflict. …show more content…
I wasn’t just off, I went the complete opposite direction of her assertive answer. Now there were obvious things my acquaintance and I didn’t know about each other, but there were also things we did. The way by which we know each other is a large parts of both of our self-concepts: horses. We both own, ride, and competitively show horses, donating much of our free time to our favorite four-legged friends. When asked about ourselves, and each other, what we would prefer to spend our money on both of us put down horses. And although not matching up in exactly the same areas, both of us made mention of our horse habit on both questionnaires in at least one other