Comments | xentropyx: homesickness is so freshman year.

xentropyx

homesickness is so freshman year.

Dec 12, 2010 17:31

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.-Kurt Vonnegut ( Read more... )

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xentropyx December 13 2010, 02:43:01 UTC

I love that video! Thank you.

grrrlishgrin December 13 2010, 22:23:10 UTC

thinking of you. i hope it gets better. i go through these feelings periodically and i think vonnegut is right and it's just a neverending struggle to create community and keep people close and everyone warm and keep expanding and including. hopefully school ending will put you in a better mood..i know it did for me.

it can take time... anonymous December 14 2010, 17:54:02 UTC

This post really resonates with me because I felt like this the first three years that I lived here in Lexington. It was really tough for me to establish a community in this town and I wanted to go home to Columbus or go somewhere else really badly. I know for me, it was especially tough sometimes because I have a tendency to be shy and private, so while I ask a million questions of other people and learn as much as I can about them, it takes me a lot to open myself up and establish relationships built on mutual understanding, trust and support.

Just know that Lexington is an amazing city with a lot to offer, and many creative, sensitive, and wonderful people - it's just not always easy to find them, and sometimes you have to be proactive about building your own community which is something else I've learned. If you ever want to just hang out, give me a call or send me a text.

Ondine

cheredemoiselle December 15 2010, 05:23:48 UTC

This is Amber Surface from LIS 601. I'm sorry if this is like hijacking your journal, but I noticed it on Facebook.

I can relate to how you're feeling about the lack of community. I'm three hours from home, and I hardly know anyone here. I live in an apartment complex, yet I've never met my neighbors.

For what it's worth, I'm not a particularly good cook, but I do have a (small) kitchen and would love to have company that doesn't respond to me with purrs and mews.

Lovely Cheyenne anonymous December 21 2010, 02:08:32 UTC

I miss you, it was so good to see you earlier this month, but I don't like living in a different town than you. Of course I wish you all the best in finding a community in your new locale but.....just the same, I wish you were here.
BIG LONG DISTANCE HUGS!!

Alison