"All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" -John Lennon
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
When I feel lonely, I go out to a frat party or suchlike. I look at all the stupid, boring people doing stupid, boring things, and I thank the dead Gods that I am not close enough to any of them to not be lonely.
Cheers! The trick to conquering lonliness is to drink lots of vodka, and also to get over the idea that you should be interacting with other people.
No, because I realize that I could spend my evening here with cheap vodka and reading, or I could go out and interact with assholes. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Hmmm... I don't get much solace from a bottle... and I've found that there a few people in the world who are not assholes, and who are worth interaction. I was suprised, too. Oh, and lay off the "frat boy" jokes. :squint: - Warren
Drinking to dull one's existentialist ennui is sooo Goth. I just enjoy vodka and can't afford good stuff. Hows about you live around them then? /Grumble
Gotcha -- I prefer good wine. I am one.. Pi Kappa Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, Virginia Tech, May 2001. - Warren
Logic is prevalent on sciforums I see...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Admittedly a huge deal of people are idiots, my being a teenager does not exclude me from the crowd entirely (we're all a little stupid). To be a good friend of mine you do have to be intelligent, but for me to like you intelligence is not a given. Just be cool about fire safety. Be cool! Chances are that if you take a chance and talk to a few of them instead of spending the night frying your eyes in front of the computer screen that you might, might make an interesting friend or two. Trust me it's the story of my life.
Great advice Xev! What a trick! You’ll be conquering loneliness by talking to yourself like if you two haven’t seen for ages . Don’t think of interacting with other people, they will have to interact with you, starting by picking you up from the floor every time you fall, .what your name, …what’s your address? …By the next morning you’ll be back to square zero with your loneliness. Great stuff hey?
Yes. But what if you try and you can't? Some people don't understand how some other folks can be lonely. Some of those lonely folks can't understand how not to be lonely. It's not even about other people being assholes, that's not true for the most part. Of course, there are people like that but then there are very nice people. It's something other than that and having vodka as your best friend doesn't solve the problem.
Gahh! Why do y'all take everything so seriously? Sheesh. It doesn't? Maybe you should try some other drug then.
Admittedly, alcohol does help with loneliness.. Once you drink a few you go down to a level when talking about common people's life becomes interesting. Besides that, it doesn't help with lonelines itself (as for me). It helps well with going over bad girlfriends though.
Not to spoil the party or anything, but...... That line is from Elanor Rigby. A Beatles song written mainly by Paul, not John.
