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[rosiexriveter]

hello. hope you are all lovely. i've been in this sort of weird actually-hang-out-with-other-people mode the past couple of days. this little hermit lady feels like she is going to explode! i do enjoy other people's company very much, and am happy that the oppurtunity presented itself. i think i am just waaay too guilty of caring too much what

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[silentscavenger]

The way I see it, to concern yourself too much of others opinions is an excuse only to judge yourself. There is no way you could ever know exactly what someone else is thinking, and therefore when you find yourself in a social setting, wondering what negative things the other person is thinking or judging you on, you are only opening a pandora's box of possibile negative self-reflection. Conversely, people also have problems sometimes of constantly thinking people percieve nothing but fantastic things about them, thereby deifying themselves privately even when they are acting like complete asses, and not knowing when to stop. What I have come to learn as an actor, and co-inhabitant with Becca on her bar scene, is with my own social anxiety I find the most comfortable thing to do is adopt a form of Social Nihilism; that is while I catch myself thinking of these possible negative perceptions of other people, I remind myself that tyring to imagine what they are thinking is pointless. There is no possibility, whatsoever, for an objective

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[rosiexriveter]

tanks mattachu. i like your happy long replies. i don't know what to add to all dis, so i won't attempt it. but much love to you, and thank you for caring!

[girldelirium]

i wasn't being hostile on james' journal. i hope neither of you felt that way! i am very confrontational about politics and anything that has to do with them, so i was just speaking my mind. i think that people take that as hostility. but confrontation doesn't equal hostility all the time. i wish more people were confrontational. it would really work for the change we all want but are too afraid to ask for.

[rosiexriveter]

james and i are both kinda pacifist hippie types deep down, so we aren't used to the confrontations. but i'm glad that it wasn't meant as hostile. i think in my ideal world we could all sit around a campfire and have peaceful little discussions, but i suppose things may not ever be like that.