Something....Different. Please.

The dumbest and most unfortunate thing is when you notice repetitive patterns in your own life. I have been looking over old LJ posts, and noticing some, which I do not approve of. Apparently at some point I got it in my head that romantic affairs counterbalance the general lack of compassion, optimism, and altruism ( Read more... )

 I am not sure how it was I stumbled onto the subject, which has preoccupied my mind for the last week...perhaps it was the murder/suicide of some people I was casually friendly with, or perhaps something entirely different, but I ran acrosss this paragraph on a website devoted to grief:

- Everyone has heard about the famous "Dear John" letters that ( Read more... )

 As a child of the Cold War era,  the belief in coming  nuclear annhilation was so deeply embedded in my head in my teenage years thatI have never fully been able to let go of it to this day, despite all signs that say it's not going to happen.

On a similar note, I have always believed and obtusely and stubbornly continue to believe that I will ( Read more... )

A friend of mine wrote this in Russian, and I've stolen the text and loosely translated it because I can totally relate.....


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Refrigerators are an odd extension of ourselves, through technology. Clothes, book, and music collections, may or may not reveal the deeper nature of the owner due to space constraints and circumstances (e.g. the recent loss of a library in a flood by jackbabalon23 ). A fridge, on the other hand, is a modern convenience few people do without, even in the most ( Read more... )

I have been a smoker since about age 18. First it was clove cigarettes, then menthol, and finally Camel Filters and Marlboro.
In the time I've spent damaging my lungs, I've seen the price of a pack of smokes go from around  $2.00 to $6.00 per pack. I've also watched my own lung capacity decrease, and more and more regular Upper Respiratory ( Read more... )

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 life iseems a pile of random jigsaw puzzle pieces, manufactured out of broken dreams amnd uncompleted projects, that is supposed to form the image of the perfect girl when put together.

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 Yegads, I am just a bit freaked out by turning yet another year older. One more of these and I'm going to eneter into the demographic where they begin sending me offers for adult diapers and retirement homes

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