Naturalism
I adore people very much and I'm sure that it's my downfall. I want to impress them and I want them to love me, which is the natural response to something you respect and love. We seek reciprocity and turn bitter when we don't receive it. One of the great acknowledged virtues, however, is moderation -- moderation of pleasures that are in danger of becoming vicious. And the adoration of people is one of these. An excessive adoration of people is the perfect breeding ground for detrimental expectations, as mentioned before; you will expect to be adored back, but nowhere in the act of adoring people is this logically entailed, and so you have no true right to expect it. But you will expect it, because that's the natural instinct of man, to expect something in return. A lot of people talk about training yourself to love people without the expectation of love in return, but I suspect this is unrealistic, so as an alternative combat to this vice of excessive anthropic ad...