How does your idea of what you look for in others compare with the reality of who you interact with?

I look for comedy.  I look for class.  I look for intelligence.  

When I try to make a new friend i usually observe and interact with someone for a decent amount of time before I add them to my mental list of people that I would call my friend.  I love to laugh, so i surround myself with people who are quite comedic.  I look for class in a person, so i try to surround myself with people who also appreciate the finer things in life.  In my life there are only a few people that are comedic, classy, and intelligent.  Those are the people that happen to be in my inner circle of friends.  I try to embody a person who is a gentleman, someone who makes others laugh, and someone who has an air of intelligence about them.  So I try to surround myself with people exactly like that.  In high school its a bit harder to do that as many have not matured yet.  I have no doubt that during college and after college my circle of friends will match all of these standards.

Gut Instinct

Gut Instinct.

I'm afraid that I am not very much of an expert on gut instinct.  Every single time i go with my gut, I end up doing the wrong thing.  Yet when I go against my gut it always seems to be that I should have chosen to go with my gut.  Its quite unfortunate this conundrum I'm in.  I can relate this post to fantasy football and school.  I am a very active member in the fantasy football community, and i play in a league with my friends.  There are some of my friends that know much more about fantasy football than others, so I often go to them for advice.  Unfortunately their advice always seems to conflict with my gut instinct.  This causes a huge dilemma for me as I am a very indecisive person.  Because they are the experts, I usually follow their advice, and it turns out that my gut instinct would have been a much better option.  After this happens for a while, I start going with my gut, and ignoring my friends' advice.  I feel confident in my choices, but it turns out that my friends' advice was correct, and my gut was wrong.  There has never been a happy outcome in this situation.

It pains me to say that the same exact thing happens to me during school.  I take a wide variety of classes in order to challenge myself, yet one factor remains the same through all of my classes, there are tests.  I usually am quite prepared for the tests, I study ahead of time and I do lots of review work.  When it comes to test day, I easily answer the questions I know, and I try to exercise smart testing techniques by narrowing down each question to two answer choices.  I feel confident enough that I can still be successful my increasing my odds of choosing the right answer.  Alas, my conundrum arises yet again- I can't decide whether to go with my gut, or to go with the other answer.  No matter which option I choose I always end up getting the wrong answer.

My natural shortcoming is that I am extremely indecisive, and it certainly doesn't help that the world seems hate me with each choice I make.