People do not want to be alone.

[Verbal Mike]

People do not want to be alone.

It's the driving force behind a great deal of human activity. People will do nigh on anything to avoid being alone. People will look to almost anything they can become part of, simply not to be alone. People hunger for the feeling of belonging. They will latch on to the first political party to come there way, provided they find common grounds with the souls in the movement. Gladly they will toss away their own opinions, just to get into that new in-group.

People do not want to be alone.

When you are alone, any group looks appealing, just because it is a group. By becoming part of a group you imagine you will no longer be alone. Heroin addicts, National Socialists, Anarchists, potheads, hippies, emos, Internet trolls, Discordians, gamers... People do not want to be alone. Think of any group and you can bet at least half the people involved just don't want to be alone. That's why they're there. Sure, it's not the only factor involved. But most people can't even imagine just actually being alone. Hardly anyone can imagine being okay with it. No, people do not want to be alone. They will latch on to some group, just because it is a group. That's why groupthink is so appealing. If you agree with the group about everything, you'll think you're part of it. Especially when it comes to ideology. These days you can be part of a group just by holding the group's set of beliefs. Well, if groupthink is all it will take to escape yourself, to be not-alone... Well that's not such a bad price to pay, right?

People do not want to be alone.

We're all born with the circuitry we need to be together, to be part of something bigger. We all know it, and we all spend inordinate amounts of energy chasing it. People do not want to be alone. But then when we approach sex, we make it into some kind of cold, mechanical act of release. That's not what it's about, folks. People do not want to be alone. Sex, yea all intimacy, is not about release. It's all about connection. When we break down all walls and barriers, when we're naked, together, damn near merging into one biological being, finally we are together, entirely. People do not want to be alone. And yet so many people spend so much time chasing that un-alone, only to shy back from the real togetherness right on the verge of its consummation, all too afraid to let their lover be together with them. People do not want to be alone. They become so engrossed in their chase after togetherness, they miss it entirely and understand it as a selfish act. But selfishness is aloneness.

People do not want to be alone.

Well guess what, buddy, you are alone.
Fuck you.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 

[Cainad (dec.)]

Hee hee hee.

[Triple Zero]

that third paragraph pretty much addressed the ".. but wait a minute" i was gonna post at first

[Reginald Ret]

But I do want to be alone!


Regret,
proud member of the wanting to be alone group.

[Triple Zero]

But I do want to be alone!


Regret,
proud member of the wanting to be alone group.

awwww.. here, have some vocoders for loners ..

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

But I do want to be alone!


Regret,
proud member of the wanting to be alone group.

Then.. why are you here?

[Reginald Ret]

I wouldn't be much of a hypocrite if my actions didn't contradict my words now would i? and if I'm not an hypocrite i can't call myself human.

and to be a bit more nuanced: I want to be alone a lot but not exclusively, i like my friends and i like spending time with them, but the main reason i like them is because the social restrictions are minimal and clear, there is plenty of room to be myself(meaning the parts of me that are different from them for you nitpickers).

ehmm i wanted to say more but i forget, i forget again.

[Triple Zero]

if you need a reason for hypocrisy, you're doing it wrong.

[Verbal Mike]

Regret, I kinda indicated (or at least meant to say) that being alone is not only healthy but unavoidable. But being exclusively alone is probably no picnic, and as lots of people prefer to think in absolutes, they toss the baby out with the bathwater and try and avoid aloneness altogether. Some of my friends are like that and it drives me nuts.

[Reginald Ret]

i'm even an hypocrite about being a hypocrite  go figure.

sorry st verb, there are so many people thinking in absolutes that i'm seeing it everywhere now, its like its burned into my retina.

[Nast]

If it bothers you, perhaps you can have something else burn itself into your retina?

[LMNO]

(pain series)

[Reginald Ret]

If it bothers you, perhaps you can have something else burn itself into your retina?

any propositions?

[LMNO]

(PAIN SERIES)