How often do you experience loneliness?

[windcatcher 0]

I was just curious to see how much people here experience loneliness. I know it's a feeling us humans can't really escape, but some of us experience it more than others. I read in one of my textbooks that people who on average, spend more time online experience loneliness more frequently than those who don't spend a lot of time on the internet.

I think loneliness is one of the worst feelings in the world, I hate feeling that way. I strongly dislike the thought of people feeling lonely, this semester I want to help others quit feeling lonely.

So how about you? You don't have to post, just poll. ( and no, I'm not talking about "loneliness" as in, "I don't have anyone to lay me"). Feel free to post if you want

Mother to the cutest little thing in the world...

[ACMESkydiver 0]

Your poll at this moment is dead even.

I don't ever feel lonely. I don't think I've felt lonely for 8 years now. I have no time to feel lonely.

...well, now I take that back. I did feel lonely once a year ago when Joe was deployed, the kids were away, and I was just sitting home alone on the weekend. I was too embarrassed to call a friend to go anywhere or hang out or something...I kinda forgot how. That was kinda lonely.

But that's the only time in 8 years that I can recall feeling lonely.

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[GeordieSkydiver 0]

Its just another emotion we have and I'm sure everyone has experienced it at some point.

Along with anger, love, jealously, sadness, happiness...I could go on.My point is, if your happy, you rarely consider why, when people get lonely, they analyse why. Thinking they are doing something wrong.

You're not, its natural. (IMHO)

Sometimes I like being alone, but I rarely get lonely.

Lee _______________________________

In a world full of people, only some want to fly, is that not crazy?
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[freeflir29 0]

Being that I spend 9 months of the year in Iraq......I experience lonliness a lot. My team sort of becomes a second family but they can't replace what I have at home. It's a price I pay to do a lot of good both for me personally and the world in general. I miss my baby almost every minute of the day.

[shropshire 0]

Every time that I log on and find no PMs

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[windcatcher 0]

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Every time that I log on and find no PMs

hehe. I sometimes feel that way too, cause when I was on all the time I talked to people and sent and received pm's all the time, and now I don't post much anymore.

I feel lonely a lot, because I love people and spending time with them, especially my family. When I don't get to see them, I most certainly experience loneliness.

Mother to the cutest little thing in the world...

[Squeak 17]

i'm online heaps, but rarely do I ever feel lonely, I'm also often alone, but I like my own company so usually no loneliness there either.
The times when i have felt lonely have been when I'm away from familiar things and people. Like in the middle of Chicago, surrounded by thousands of people and not knowing ANY of them. I got over that pretty fast though but talking with people
Maslows Hierarchy of needs is always at play

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[mx757 4]

every morning.. being single it sucks wakng up in morning looking over finding no one on other side of bed... damn.. was dreaming again...

[waltappel 1]

Pretty much never. It's pretty easy to meet interesting people in Houston, even if it's just a passing conversation.

Even when I'm not around people as long as there are animals around, I feel like I'm in very good company.

At the moment, my cat Zoe is keeping me company at my computer (see attached pic).

Earlier tonight, I was about 5 feet from an armadillo who was wolfing down some cooked egg yolks that I put out. Then we were joined by a gang of raccoons.

Of course there's always the squirrels. (I shot the video in my apartment.)

Walt

[FallingOsh 0]

The girlfriend just graduated and comissioned into the Air Force. I still have a year of school left, then a year-ish of casual status, then 18 months-ish of flight school. I don't get lonely until I think about how long it will be before we're stationed together.

Obviously people who are online all the time tend to be lonelier. If Amy was here, I wouldn't be posting messages at 1:30 in the morning.

It's not all bad, though. I can play Halo whenever I want to now and I've got my dog to hang out with. She can sit, army crawl, and play dead. If I can teach her to cook breakfast and do laundry I'll hardly know Amy is gone.

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[bob.dino 1]

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can teach her to cook breakfast and do laundry I'll hardly know Amy is gone. [Shocked]

Is your dog that good in bed?

[Silverlining 0]

Yeah can relate to that one!

I used to get really lonely when I was living away from home for a while - just didn't feel like I had the close ties that I have when I was back home. Luckily I ended up getting a job back home and moved back.

But even now that I am home I find that I am looking for something else - don't ask me what, as I can't quite put my finger on it right now - but I just feel restless. Maybe it is that I haven't skydived for 7 months!!!

Skydiving is a great cure for the blues!

[droquette 0]

i broke up with my girlfriend of 4 years yesterday... so yeah, you could say i feel lonely.

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[jumpchikk 0]

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every morning.. being single it sucks wakng up in morning looking over finding no one on other side of bed... damn.. was dreaming again...

It does suck. Along with going home in the evenings and having no one there to share the day with, make dinner with, laugh with.... I could go on, but I'm depressing myself, so I'll stop.

Hey, but that's all about to change for me, so that makes me happy!!

[wmw999 2,447]

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but rarely do I ever feel lonely, I'm also often alone, but I like my own company so usually no loneliness there either.

I'm more likely to feel lonely when surrounded by people than when I'm alone. I'm not real good in groups, and sit on the edge. Alone or with one person to talk to, no problem.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[shunkka 0]

sometime
the sad part is that i feel "L" when i`m with a lot of ppl

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[missg8tordivr 0]

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Hey, but that's all about to change for me, so that makes me happy!! [Smile][Smile][Smile]

Yes it is!! Hey...did you write your cover letter yet?!

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[Rudderow 2]

I've been feeling lonely a lot lately. but that's due entirely to the fact that I had to put my dog down on Thursday (9/8). Things just aren't the same without him around.

PMS #165 Swooo #613 CSA #687

[popsjumper 2]

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...Hey, but that's all about to change for me, so that makes me happy!!

What??????? Don't tell me it's shimmell....

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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[jumpchikk 0]

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What??????? Don't tell me it's shimmell....

Not Shimell.

edit to add... I have completed my cover letter, but should be done tonight

[freeflir29 0]

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Not Shimell.

Wait...........is this move good for me?

[jumpchikk 0]

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Wait...........is this move good for me?

This move will be good for a lot of people.

[4WayXena 0]

I'm lonely all the fucking time... At home I'm lonely because I can't talk to the gf without a bunch of passive aggressive shit raining down on me.

At the DZ I'm lonely because I think I don't fit. And in some ways I don't fit because no one else on the DZ is gay - though the guys claim to be lesbians trapped in men's bodies. And some of the girls are intimidated by me, I think, because I don't act, dress, or look like them.

When I go out to the girl bar - I definitely don't fit because my life doesn't revolve around living in a dyke bar. I care about more than partying and going to the bar every Saturday or who's sleeping with who. And dammit I refuse to dress like a tart with my gstring hanging out - eek! Even if regular women's clothes fit me, which they don't.

At work, I'm the boss so no one wants to talk to me for fear I'm gonna be some major asshole and hold something against them if things aren't going right. Which I wouldn't.

It's tough trying to figure out a place in this society when it's not made for you. It's not really made for any one person, but a dumbed down collective. And when you make alterations to make the world fit, society bags you for it. Makes you pay the price for being different in ways both subtle and obvious.

I don't want to be out here by myself - I just haven't met enough people to hang out here with me, yet. There aren't enough of us out on the edge to flip the whole fucking thing over, either.

[windcatcher 0]

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I care about more than partying and going to the bar every Saturday or who's sleeping with who. And dammit I refuse to dress like a tart with my gstring hanging out - eek!

I feel the exact same way. Unfortunately. people won't fit in some places if they care about more than the above

Mother to the cutest little thing in the world...

[4WayXena 0]

And here I thought I was going to get dinged for being a whiner

Thanks!