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My name is subs, and I thought I'd just introduced my self. Well I came across this site on Google, actually what I was thinking of is starting a blog about life, mine, in the lonely lane. I guess my take at the moment on loneliness is that most (myself included) do not understand what it truly means to be alone and some of it's effects.

I have been on my own now for two years, no relationships, friends, family and lovers. I have days and weeks when I am on lock down and I just lock myself in my house all alone, but for the most part I have to go to work and deal with people, but at this point or lately I am so very aware of how disconnected I am from them, I am not like them, I am completely on my own and I am aware of it in ways that are not usual but okay.

I have many gadgets to entertain me at my place, and I have enjoyed them thoroughly, but it is now abundantly clear that all these are mere distractions as meaningless and eventually unentertaining as the friends and families and lovers that most (not all) have. At this point I have given in to the loneliness completely, at least for now, it is what is real and what helps makes sense of life for me, me and my thoughts are my sanctuary.

I have my days of depression, days when I doubt what I am I doing, days when I question the one thing in my life I value the most - my sanity, days when my mind turns against me and taunts me in the cruelest ways. You can call me crazy, a loner, a social misfit, a weirdo, I am cool with that, not all of us choose the easy road of conforming to the expectations of the modern culture - I seek what is true and right and real even on my crappiest day. Truth is not always pretty.

So in a nutshell that is me, alone as the man in the moon but still the indistinguishable face of a real person you walked past last week. Part of it all but fighting to break away from it all and be free to find the truth.


“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
― Aristotle
 
Hi subs. Welcome. Will you still be starting that blog, or perhaps you could write some more in this thread too? What kind of work do you do? How do you distinguish truth from illusion?
 
xrchz said:
Hi subs. Welcome. Will you still be starting that blog, or perhaps you could write some more in this thread too? What kind of work do you do? How do you distinguish truth from illusion?

Hello there Xrchz. Thanks for the welcome :). So will I be starting the blog or starting something here? I am not quiet sure right now. But generally I tend to share the things that really matter to me and I think to most of us, especial the thoughts and aspects of us that we rather not look at. I don't know call me arrogant, with little regard for forced politeness, small talk, meaningless exchanges, distractions...distractions from the elephant in the room - the apparent meaningless of life.

How do I distinguish truth from illusion? lol. A few years ago I would have given you answer without hesitating and with all the confidence and certainty in the world. Now I don't know anything, I question everything, I trust nothing. And it's so hard believing in nothing and having no sense of meaning when very little distracts you from you when you realize that almost everything else is a distraction. For now I'd say the distractions are the illusions. The truth is - I do not know. What is real is the here and now, this moment and ME. What this all means, why me, why all this and what is the point of it all when it is seems that life has no apparent meaning - I need to know for a start.

What do you think is the difference between truth and illusion? Just curious.

I am an engineer.





 
subs728 said:
I don't know call me arrogant, with little regard for forced politeness, small talk, meaningless exchanges, distractions...distractions from the elephant in the room - the apparent meaningless of life.

I've found that small talk is sometimes the only way in to reach someone before you get to talk about what you really want to talk about. Anything deep must be approached with respect and care, with some offerings of shallowness first. I think this book makes the same recommendation http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Start-Conversation-Make-Friends/dp/0684868016.

subs728 said:
What do you think is the difference between truth and illusion? Just curious.
This place, http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences, has some interesting approaches to that question, which I for the most part agree with.
 

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