693: Loneliness

Dec 08, 2009 22:39

"Loneliness ( Read more... )

robert bly, rainer maria rilke

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ti December 9 2009, 03:55:01 UTC
are you okay?

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exceptindreams December 9 2009, 04:57:24 UTC
I am. I'm just very lonely. This university is not where I want to be. I'm alone most of the time despite my best efforts to meet people (working on two different literary magazines, being in a religious group, working on a theatre production). I have M, thank God, but without him, I'd be significantly worse off. He goes to a school across the city too, which, while it isn't a great distance, is far enough for me to feel alone. And I do. Besides, he's never been my only friend, but now he is the only one I have in this city (the rest are off elsewhere), and I hate relying on him to be my everything. Relationships are absolutely not supposed to be someone's everything. So, anyway, I'm lonely and frustrated.

That's probably more than you wanted to know, but there you go.

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amnotcute December 9 2009, 08:44:39 UTC
*sending hugs from an internet stranger* I hope things improve for you

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high_x_voltage December 9 2009, 13:37:36 UTC
i completely feel you. i am constantly surrounded by people at my university between all the things i do, and yet i feel so singular and alone. i don't have an M either, just a couple roommates who i am slowly becoming more and more frustrated with.
my goal in this was to let you know you're not alone in how you feel.

*hug* feel better <3

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awkwardlovely December 9 2009, 04:51:47 UTC
I love the ocean. There's something very lonely, beautiful, peaceful and sad about the ocean. I really like this poem too.. . When I think of the ocean, I think of Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs of the ocean on the island town of Naoshima in Japan.

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amnotcute December 9 2009, 08:45:03 UTC
This has a melancholic beauty.

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bleakwinters December 9 2009, 14:20:49 UTC
I got a book of Rilke poems from my boyfriend and this always stands out to me. When I miss those I love, this is the poem I think of.

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chaosbydesign December 9 2009, 16:19:21 UTC
Am I the only one who chuckled at the line "It rains down on us in those Twittering hours?" :P So true...

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dreams_of_all December 13 2009, 01:35:36 UTC
Try as I might, I still think of twitter as "what birds do."

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