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[spirit_machines]

         I often find it hard to connect to others. A friend told me once that I am different from everybody, but I always thought everybody was different from everybody else, which was the whole point of being an individual. It is said that you can live through your whole life not truly understanding even those that are very close to you, which is

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[the_tower]

... god, you're so damn optimistic. You have no idea how jealous I am of that optimism right now. As I was reading all I could think was 'love isn't real, we can never understand somebody that way, we're always going to be looking at others through masks of some sort, even if they're the most innermost masks that they have'

I feel like you've got it in reverse, though. I think people lose something as they grow older (i.e. innocence), instead of gaining facades, it's only something they do to try to cope with the loss. People change all the time, and as friends or someone who cares, one should try to keep up with that change. Of course it's also the other person's reponsibility to inform their friends of what's going on with them, so as to avoid the rug-from-under-you feeling and the gradual distancing that comes from such things. Although, I have no right to say these things, as I don't really keep up as much as I should. But then again, how many of us will make an effort to keep up with people who are even physically a long distance away? On a tangent, long-distance relationships never works unless the couple is already reaaallly devoted and can't live w/o each other.

[spirit_machines]

Yeah, it's hard to keep up with the changes in all your friends and even yourself sometimes.

It's no more optimism than hope that I will be able to achieve my stated goal.