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appreciate the reminder i’m still alive and that even reclusive types need other people
Jun 8, 2025
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🤍This is not even really an anti-rec, because I have good friends whom I love dearly and a roommate I get on with very well. And I go out and see my people and I like my coworkers and the kids I work with and smile at the people on the street and try to be kind to the bus drivers and cashiers, so it's always interesting that I end up feeling this way.
There's so many people out here and yet so many of us end up feeling lonely. It's such a strange paradox. Like what are you yearning for my little heart?
There's so many people out here and yet so many of us end up feeling lonely. It's such a strange paradox. Like what are you yearning for my little heart?
May 6, 2025
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🤝After sustained isolation and loneliness, spending time with other people can be a much-needed grounding, humbling experience
Invite people over! Hop on the train / in the car to visit a friend! Go to new places and meet new people. Start a movie club, meet up at a café, embark on an open-ended collaborative creative endeavor. Give yourself many excuses to get out of your apartment, and do whatever you've gotta do to put yourself in the presence of other human beings. It's good for regulating your emotional state and ego. It fills a certain part of you that may be empty without you even knowing it
This is especially true for spending time with people who are *different* from you: people who have different talents, people who do crazy drugs you'd never do, people who spend their time in different places than you, even people you might kind of hate! The contrast can be stressful but that's just because you're using more brain power to place yourself in relation to these other people in the moment. But the long-term payoff will make you feel whole, and the world will start making a bit more sense. And once all is said and done, the feeling of returning to your apartment, or of cleaning up and lighting a candle after you've had visitors of your own, will have made it worth all the while
Invite people over! Hop on the train / in the car to visit a friend! Go to new places and meet new people. Start a movie club, meet up at a café, embark on an open-ended collaborative creative endeavor. Give yourself many excuses to get out of your apartment, and do whatever you've gotta do to put yourself in the presence of other human beings. It's good for regulating your emotional state and ego. It fills a certain part of you that may be empty without you even knowing it
This is especially true for spending time with people who are *different* from you: people who have different talents, people who do crazy drugs you'd never do, people who spend their time in different places than you, even people you might kind of hate! The contrast can be stressful but that's just because you're using more brain power to place yourself in relation to these other people in the moment. But the long-term payoff will make you feel whole, and the world will start making a bit more sense. And once all is said and done, the feeling of returning to your apartment, or of cleaning up and lighting a candle after you've had visitors of your own, will have made it worth all the while
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🫀i was the first grandchild/cousin, oldest sibling, weird kid etc etc so i know how to make the most of time by myself. and i do value my alone time! but i am very sick of people telling me that i need to learn to enjoy time by myself when i express frustration in not having many friends close by and/or interested in the same things as me.
most of my friends are long distance or simply enjoy different things than me. and thats fine! but it’s also fine for me to want to go to a concert with someone or go to a museum and have someone to talk about the art with. also it’s ok for me to want a romantic smooch or a held hand every once in a while. it does not mean i don’t love myself it just means i am human!
most of my friends are long distance or simply enjoy different things than me. and thats fine! but it’s also fine for me to want to go to a concert with someone or go to a museum and have someone to talk about the art with. also it’s ok for me to want a romantic smooch or a held hand every once in a while. it does not mean i don’t love myself it just means i am human!
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bc it’s what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but I’m just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English courses—barely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but I’m just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English courses—barely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
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🏆conflusional. delonfident, even
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