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[romasquerade]

HELLO LIVEJOURNAL, it's been a while. And by a while I mean like a week or something, but it feels like MUCH longer. I've been super busy recently, working 30 hours last week in 4 days (this is actually only impressive because 15 of them were on one day ((the 4th, no less, which was about 105 degrees and all of my work that day was physical))), and

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[darelose]

Of course you're not being too forward! And I appreciate you screening my comment, even though I'm also sure your flist isn't full of crazy murderers. Exactly! For example, my school has a clock and bell tower (as I'm sure most schools do? I'm not actually sure, but universities have a lot of things in common) and it tolls a full song everyday at 2:00 pm. I just love stuff that's unique to my school, because it becomes this experience you have that's common to everyone else experiencing it with you, even if you have nothing else in common. I've lived in the same place my whole life, so I have no idea what it's like to move around a lot, but I imagine it's difficult. What places have you lived, if you don't mind my asking?

It's an understatement to say, but being unhappy is literally the worst, so I'm sorry you have to deal with that but glad that you have a way to cope with it. The therapist I used to see was always telling me that coping skills are a really important thing to have, so it's actually really nice to have One Direction because, on the whole, they cheer me up more than anything. And even when they don't it's not through anything the band does, rather how some fans act. I never thought about it before, but I agree with you that they have changed my life as well. (Also, feel free to tell me if I get too ~personal or whatever. I know that not everyone is super comfortable talking about depression or what-have-you.)

[romasquerade]

You know, I'm not sure if my school has a proper clock and bell tower. We have a bell tower on one of our chapels that on the hour will play anything from the HP theme to the Pokemon theme to classical pieces to who knows what, but I think our only big clock is on one of our libraries. But yeah, I know what you mean. All of these people have something in common with you even if there's nothing besides the school you go to -- the school you chose to go to (for the most part) -- that's still something. It's pretty cool.

The medium-length story goes: I was born in New Mexico, moved to a Chicago suburb when I was 2, moved to western Illinois when I was 7, moved to Indiana at ..... 12, moved to Detroit at .... 16 (just barely)? And moved to Chicago for school last September (18)! So lots of the midwest, although I visit New Mexico a lot to visit my grandma and my dad currently lives in Florida, so I'm there a decent amount, too.

(Don't ever feel like you're being too personal with me unless it's something that you aren't comfortable sharing. I like to make it clear that I'm not trying to claim any experiences with depression because I wouldn't want to like... pretend I know what that feels like when I don't, but I'm something of the Person To Talk To(TM) among my friends about these sorts of issues, and a lot of my close friends DO suffer from depression, anxiety, other mental illnesses, what-have-you, so I'm comfortable hearing about it and discussing it. Which is all to say -- anything you're comfortable sharing with me, I'm comfortable hearing and talking about, 99% of the time. If anything falls within that 1% (thus far I haven't found anything that does, but I don't like saying 100%), I'll definitely let you know.)

It's really nice that the band itself never does anything that sucks, for sure. And I've actually found myself mostly secluded in a bubble of fandom that ALSO doesn't suck? It used to take a lot for me to unfriend or unfollow a person, but I just decided with this fandom that I needed to make that policy more relaxed. So I really only follow a few people on Tumblr that are really into 1D, and my flist is comprised of really respectful individuals, and I just... try not to venture outside of that and for the most part I don't have to interact with the shitty parts of this fandom.