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millie
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29 Dec 2009, 9:13 pm

HI MITH.

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29 Dec 2009, 9:14 pm

I'm not immune at all. I'm lonely right now.

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29 Dec 2009, 9:25 pm

No. I'm feeling lonely right now.

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29 Dec 2009, 9:54 pm

Compared to most other people that I know, I can avoid social contact (msn and in person) for a much longer time than them, let's say about 3 months. I wouldn't say I'm immune to loneliness, more like I only have a teacup to fill in terms of social contact (with friends or strangers) as opposed to buckets and water tanks for others.

I get equally excited/stimulated from both friends and strangers if they were to talk things of interest to me. If they talk crap or stuff which I don't care about, then I'll just disappear from their presence.

The lifestyle of the social nomad is becoming more and more appealing to me.

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29 Dec 2009, 11:36 pm

Amajanshi wrote:

I like your teacup analogy. That's pretty much how I feel. I'm looking at your avatar picture, and wondering now if you have an interest in teacups? (Actually, that looks more like coffee to me, because it's so dark.)

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30 Dec 2009, 12:08 am

The longest time I have ever spent alone was 8 months in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. I went out there feeling good about leaving all the chaos behind. I lived next door to my brother and mom and that was it. I only spoke to them about 5% of the time out there. I was 17 & 18 years old. Eventually I longed to fall in love and became homesick for Maryland. I suppose that was the loneliest I ever became. as of now, with everyone around me and living in a populated place again, I never get lonely. If I would not have spent that time in Missouri, I would have truly believed in my own heart that It would not be possible for me to ever feel lonely either.

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30 Dec 2009, 12:30 am

Hmm, I don't get lonely at all. If I'm alone and there's nothing to do, I escape into my inner world. It's fun to go out and socialize once in a while, but I can live without it given there are no people around me so that I can withdraw. People distract me, since I feel the need to participate when I'm around people. Otherwise, I get really bored and suppressed. But it's not loneliness. It's just this desire I have to get involved, to make others acknowledge my presence. To be an active participant.

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30 Dec 2009, 2:51 am

It depends on what kind of loneliness you mean.
I am only immune to the loneliness of not having a boyfriend or anything.
But not to the loneliness when I am at my new school, since I haven't been there very long and I always miss my friends from my old school. I mean I have friends at the new school, but I don't know them very well, so I can't be my total self around them and I don't feel comfortable around them...
Plus. My immunity to being alone like boyfriendless is slowly being chipped away at since like almost everyone there is a couple or has a bf/gf from a different schoo or whatever.
But since I hate being lonely I try to not think about it, which is the only thing that is keeping me from really feeling lonely.

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30 Dec 2009, 3:33 am

elderwanda wrote:

Thanks! I'm not particularly interested in teacups (I always drink with a mug at home coz I drink a lot of water), but I do like drinking coffee just to stay awake!

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30 Dec 2009, 3:39 am

FaithHopeCheese wrote:

What are we all doing here.......

The discussions are interesting. I don't participate in these forums for company. I have a perfectly good dog for that.

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30 Dec 2009, 12:50 pm

mitharatowen wrote:

my reasons for posting on WP are not exactly to communicate/socialize with others. I have a very strong desire to express my thoughts. Unfortunately another person is required for such expression.

If I do not have an outlet to express my thoughts, they buzz around in my head and drive me nuts. I don't particularly care if anyone reads them or responds, but I have to get them out.

Hear! Hear! Ditto...I second that emotion.

mitharatowen wrote:

I suppose the desire to express oneself can be interpreted as a desire to communicate? And therefore to socialize? And therefore lonlieness if it is not realized?

Hmm interesting train of thought.. I will have to ponder this.

Hmm...lonliness unrealized...is this not an oxymoron?

the tragedy of unfulfillment, unfulfilled...

the contented loner...who is empty and aching...and doesn't know it...

Is that possible? Strangely...it...just...might...be...

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31 Dec 2009, 5:18 pm

Willard wrote:

mitharatowen wrote:

Hear! Hear! Ditto...I second that emotion.

mitharatowen wrote:

Yep. Some people will make it their mission in life to make you realize how empty and aching you really are. They are doing you a service by making you understand and accept your misery. I've known people like that. Thankfully, I don't anymore.

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31 Dec 2009, 5:43 pm

I don't really get lony just as long as I have people to talk to online and facebook . Im used to being alone because I am an only child. I do however get "love sick" so when im not in a relationship after a few months i feel a bit depressed.

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