https://forgeover.com/tags/dull-your-shine/ Recent content in Dull Your Shine on Forgeover Hugo en-us Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:43:16 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/social/shine-bright/ Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:46:49 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/social/shine-bright/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="https://forgeover.com/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0873-Version-2.jpg"></p> <p>New parents, new lovers, newly converted, people discovering a great new ashram, sport, hobby, or any other infatuation. We all share a common stigma. Most people want us to just shut up already. There is something about falling in love that puts a shine so bright on us that makes some people just want to turn us off.</p> <p>What kind of trips me out about this phenomenon is that it is socially accepted that shining too brightly is annoying (at best). Like new parents who just can&rsquo;t stop talking about their beautiful perfect babies are somehow rubbing the rest of our noses in it. I was that guy (okay, I&rsquo;m always that guy). I couldn&rsquo;t stop talking about my kids. Even now, I have to remind myself mid-emote, that the general contractor of our new headquarters really doesn&rsquo;t care, he was just being polite.</p>