Alone, But Not Lonely.... (page 3)

Open mind

All man's miseries derive from not being
able to sit quietly in a room alone.

BLAISE PASCAL
(1623-1662)

Fantastic quote, Open mind. In today's world what do you suppose would happen if all phones, cell phones, internet messaging, and blackberries suddenly disappeared? People would freak out because they don't know how to be alone with themselves. There is a fundamental reason for this - they don't know who/what they REALLY are and they need every distraction possible to delay facing that fact.

Terry

I sit alone alot.

I stand alone too.

Earlier I walked around the mall three times just so I didn't have to go home.

If I didn't have kids I'd probably tie a plastic bag around my head.

Happiness is over-rated, but, there is something to be said for indulging in it from time to time.

I think it is a habit.

Being lonely is a way of imploding.

You have to fake happy to make happy.

I'm working on faking it lately. We'll see what happens.

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Re: comments from Open Mind, Poppers and Terry -

I can now, and only now, sit alone in a room quietly, and I am CONTENT.

I can be alone with my own thoughts - not requiring outside stimuli - and be CONTENT.

I agree - were it not for my children and grandchildren, I would be long gone by now. They have saved my life. I no longer use the word happy to describe the elevated frame of mind in which I occasionally find myself. I am "happy" to be merely CONTENT.

Terry, please remember, from a past "conversation," that yours is the very FIRST story that I read in FMJ that got me to thinking. Doesn't that make you happy!?!?

Love,

CoCo

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On holiday for four days, and essentially alone the entire time, I found plenty to do and did not feel lonely. Contact with others was rare, and then, only brief. I worked, I walked, I read, I watched a new movie....
I have grown. I did not go to pieces.

CoCo

Bumble Bee

CoCo, I treasure the time I have alone. There are occasions where hubby and I will spend some time apart. It is a time of introspection and meditation without interruptions. I have only myself to worry about.

My mother cannot fathom that I relish this time alone. She cannot spend any time alone - she always has to have people with/near her. I sometimes wonder what she is afraid of.

BB

poppers

"I sometimes wonder what she is afraid of." .......... that's a good question to ask oneself. Lots of people are in the same boat, but they are afraid to find out why.

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Greetings BB and Poppers,

Yes, aloneness is a circumstance that many contemplate with fear: "One day I shall be alone!" I had never been alone but for two months, in my mid-twenties, when I moved into my own apartment. It was on the top floor of a beautiful old Victorian mansion with a view that went on forever. I was miserable. The situation in which I had been previously warranted my escape, yet I could bear being on my own only those two months. An older friend invited me to live with him and his family. Noise, chaos, domestic strife - but I was with people, and that was the ticket. Then. And thereafter, for the next thirty years, I was never alone.
The last six years alone have forced me to deal with reality. Some things we can change, some we cannot. I now can be alone at quite a long stretch, but when I need an immediate flesh-and-blood people-fix, I simply get on the phone or go for a walk. What an easy fix!

Thank you again, Friends!

CoCo

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ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?

Shades of Elvis. Can't shake the feeling. Perhaps it's because I feel so much on the outside when my yippy-skippy JWs talk about the DC, field service, pioneer school, the nearness of the end, the wonderful publications, etc.
I am between two worlds. Like Vitty, I have to watch what I say, though I do say rather a lot. I no longer belong anywhere. It's not that I'm despondent, just feeling a bit misplaced....
Do you ever feel like this?

CoCo Le Confus

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BTTT - any words of cheer? Anyone?

CoCo

Alone, But Not Lonely....

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