What are you feeling, hoping, thinking, or remembering right now?

[InSearchOfPeople]

Had a fantastic 'IRL people fix' this afternoon out walking in the sunshine with a super neighbour and we had so much fun simply acknowledging others along the way and in the park!
Nothing really any more involved than exchanging pleasant hellos with people but it was so terrific!

If you're ever feeling lonely or down, especially if your weather's nice, just look your best, go out, take a walk and SMILE at people! Don't be afraid! They will smile back and you will feel so fantastic!

So true !
And great advice !

I can see that working somewhere in a nice place like California or Florida, walking somewhere by the ocean can significantly elevate the mood....
But what to do in a scorching hot weather in the middle of the desert?!?! My overall depressed feeling plus this heat makes me want to jump out of my skin and forget I exist.

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I've almost made it all the way through this weekend, I've had help from various places & I'm grateful for it-it's good to know there's people out there who give a **** enough about me.

I 'CAN' do this!

I haven't contacted 'HIM' & I believe I'm not going to at this point!

I feel you, it is incredible to know and feel when there are people who care about you.

Thinking about it, I recently had a great experience.

I went to have a placement test and I scored 98 out of 100. The teacher said a few times that he never seen such a result before and he looked at me with so much admiration, that in a long long ....very loooong time I felt valuable and worthy of something good.

I wish I found my spot in life where I could experience that feeling on a regular basis.
This feeling alone can make so much sense to life and add a big chunk to the feeling of being content, which is a true beginning for happiness.

 

[Solivagant]

Had a fantastic 'IRL people fix' this afternoon out walking in the sunshine with a super neighbour and we had so much fun simply acknowledging others along the way and in the park!
Nothing really any more involved than exchanging pleasant hellos with people but it was so terrific!

If you're ever feeling lonely or down, especially if your weather's nice, just look your best, go out, take a walk and SMILE at people! Don't be afraid! They will smile back and you will feel so fantastic!

So true !
And great advice !

Not true for me. They rarely smile back. It's worth trying though.

 

[WildernessWildChild]

TOO MUCH CAFFIENE TONGHT!!!!!!

Imma buzzin' big time

 

[Cavey]

Had a fantastic 'IRL people fix' this afternoon out walking in the sunshine with a super neighbour and we had so much fun simply acknowledging others along the way and in the park!
Nothing really any more involved than exchanging pleasant hellos with people but it was so terrific!

If you're ever feeling lonely or down, especially if your weather's nice, just look your best, go out, take a walk and SMILE at people! Don't be afraid! They will smile back and you will feel so fantastic!

So true !
And great advice !

Not true for me. They rarely smile back. It's worth trying though.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I smile and say hello to every single person I pass, unless they're making it obvious that they don't want to interact. Many people will reciprocate, but there are plenty of others that don't. I don't take offence, but...

If you're going to stare at me all the way along the road, don't turn your head away and blank me when I say hello - that's going to annoy me. It's your lucky day that I'm trying to be a better man.

 

[Ruthie]

Triple Bogey, thank you so much for your kind words.

You are completely right about climate, InSearchofPeople. If it were cold and miserable out or swelteringly hot, it would likely be a different story from the pleasant sunny day, just as you describe. I'm so sorry that you're experiencing that awful overall depressed feeling at the moment and also the heat you're enduring where you are. I hope so much that things get worlds better and soon. (((hugs))))

Solivagant, you're a beautiful, fascinating and intelligent person. If they knew you in real life even as much as we know you on the forum, not only would they smile back, they'd be asking you for your phone number and trying to give you theirs! You have a very cool, smooth, elegance about your manner that is so mysterious and charming. Wish I had that.

I think it's awesome that you do that, user 130057! I'm going to start doing it even more. And yes, exactly--we all know better than to "gawk" at people, lol, or try to speak to someone who we can perceive is obviously busy, annoyed or otherwise preoccupied.

And I quite agree that if someone stares at you all the way along the road, it would be most polite for them to respond to you when you are gracious enough to say hello.

 

[Triple Bogey]

Had a fantastic 'IRL people fix' this afternoon out walking in the sunshine with a super neighbour and we had so much fun simply acknowledging others along the way and in the park!
Nothing really any more involved than exchanging pleasant hellos with people but it was so terrific!

If you're ever feeling lonely or down, especially if your weather's nice, just look your best, go out, take a walk and SMILE at people! Don't be afraid! They will smile back and you will feel so fantastic!

So true !
And great advice !

Not true for me. They rarely smile back. It's worth trying though.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I smile and say hello to every single person I pass, unless they're making it obvious that they don't want to interact. Many people will reciprocate, but there are plenty of others that don't. I don't take offence, but...

If you're going to stare at me all the way along the road, don't turn your head away and blank me when I say hello - that's going to annoy me. It's your lucky day that I'm trying to be a better man.

When I am out and about taking photographs in the country or at the coast, people smile and say 'hi' - I always say 'hi' back. I don't often say 'hi' first though.

 

[VeganAtheist]

She has a hook in my heart...

 

[thelonegamer]

Thinking that maybe all this will go away and that I will be free again. The thought that nothing lasts forever keeps my going through. Not much matters any longer. The last few weeks have been dreadful. Can't wait for January so I can leave and perhaps be free

 

[WildernessWildChild]

I'm smelling BACON!!!!!

 

[johnny196775]

I just saw a skeleton as a passenger in a car.

 

[Peaches]

really hoping to survive this week, and this night

 

[InSearchOfPeople]

really hoping to survive this week, and this night

I don't know what you are going through, but I hope you'll make it, just stay strong. You can do it.

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Thinking that maybe all this will go away and that I will be free again. The thought that nothing lasts forever keeps my going through. Not much matters any longer. The last few weeks have been dreadful. Can't wait for January so I can leave and perhaps be free

It is true: nothing last forever. It is essential to keep this in mind to keep going. "This too shall pass".

 

[Mr.YellowCat]

Remember how I wrote that my brother relapsed, and how I´m afraid what is about to start happening once again? Yea...

 

[TheSkaFish]

Thinking about something my Mom said to me recently - the word of the year (the start of my 28th year) is "solutions".

I remember even back to when I was a kid, whenever I was faced with a challenge I immediately complained. I remember hearing about how in 3rd grade we were going to have to do multiplication and division, or maybe it was long division, and thinking, "i'm never going to have any free time again, long division is too hard" or something like that. And the habit just never went away....sports, riding a bike, driving, playing an instrument, getting a job, working out, making myself date-able, pretty much any skill my knee-jerk reaction was "it's too hard". But then I get mopey because I don't do anything.

It's really hard to change this mindset because I've had it for over 20 years. I feel like I have to watch all my thoughts to make sure I don't slip back into the old way, I almost did several times today already. But if it's one thing I learned from starting a new year, and seeing my family age, it just makes me think, I don't want to waste any more time. I don't want to spend the time we have left together being down, and them having only known me as lazy and mopey.

Also thinking about something similar someone said to me on here - "little positive steps, every day". So today is day 1, here we go

 

[thelonegamer]

Feeling alone. Fed by my own madness

 

[InSearchOfPeople]

I feel so freaking lonely, I woke up with "this" feeling this morning again. I thought I was doing better and it won't come back, but it did.

After a few attempts to reach out to people, that I work with or others that I've known for years, and not getting even a **** reply, I feel even worse. I feel like someone put a spell on me to stay lonely or like they had some secret agreement against me to chock me on my loneliness.

I don't know what to do, I don't know where to find rest from that. It's like there is no solution, no way out and this constant rejection from people that I ate with, slept in one bed, spend most of the time with for the last 6 years, will never end. How can someone who once were my friends be so cruel, how can someone use me a a step on the way and just move one when I am no longer useful.

 

[Rainbows]

 

[thelonegamer]

Feeling great, happy in my own madness, comfort with my self

 

[VanillaCreme]

Thinking that the cat screams like someone's throwing him in a goddamn oven. Remembering what was said to me, because in the end, it'll be one of the various reasons why it may seem like I didn't care. When you tell someone something like that, do you expect them to jump through hoops for you? That's your situation. No one else is supposed to care.

 

[Peaches]

a big hug to all those in this thread (((( ))))) I see that there are a lot of bad things happening to a lot of people, one is so centered on one's problems that one's forget