It just stuck me ...

that,

1. In the last two weeks, I have been called the following (not in a light-hearted or funny way! far from it actually)- cut throat professional, heartless, artificial, not funny, stoic, Xtremely flirtatious, a grandfather (!!) and others I don't remember now :) - all this by people who have endured me for more than 4 years and, surprisingly, form a group of people who love me for who I am (despite all that! can you believe that!). Not that I feel really bad about it. I am just curious whether there's anything common among all these traits that forms something like a crux of my personality.
   
2. Totally unrelated to point 1, 70% of the people I have any form of personal interaction with - acquaintances I meet, friends I am in touch with, people whose blogs I read - are nursing a broken heart out of lost love and about the other 30%, i don't know enough. I think something's really wrong in the air.