Cell phone notes from Lake (sort-of-)Solitude

[Lenin McCarthy]

#1
Last night I dreamed that posted a link on Facebook to a song I had written. Lots and lots of people commented, hundreds, many of them I had no idea who were. My dream consisted of just watching the stream of comments coming, some of it read in the voice of those who posted them. Someone made some stupid remark, misogynistic I think, and this was replied to with long angry ranting. This was responded to with more angry ranting. In the end there was lots of caps lock and exclamation marks but no communication. People just shouted their opinions (completely unrelated to my song!) out loud with their ears closed and rode their own personal hobby horses to the brink of death. They didn't notice each other, they didn't notice other people's arguments. It was sad. I choose to interpret this dream as a metaphor for humanity.

#2
Isolation is nice. I like it, though you turn slightly crazy from it. You get a different perspective on how the world works, more unfiltered maybe. You get time to rethink things, think about how you relate to other human beings. I've noticed that I appreciate my interactions with humans a lot more now that I live in this cabin

But even though I enjoy solitude, I also need other people to avoid becoming lonely. Few things make me feel better than good conversations, or even just the quiet presence of another person.

I also need other people there to correct me, because sometimes I'm completely wrong. Many times. Terribly wrong.

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

#4
Note to self after today's dinner: Not everything needs to bathe in fat.

#5
The concept of normality is strange.
You can be a huge fucking asshole and still be considered normal. You can wear slightly weird clothes, behave slightly weird, talk slightly weird, look slightly weird and suddenly you're an outsider. It doesn't really surprise me then, that half of Norway seems to be mentally ill at times, when the idea of normality is so narrow that you almost need to be crazy to fit in. We live in an awfully conformist society. I want to fight for a warmer and weirder society with a more inclusive idea of what normality is.

#6
Eurovision. Russia wants us to "bury our guns" LOL

#7
All the children watched the Teletubbies
Except for Serge
He read Apollinaire's Les onze mille verges

#8
There should be scholarships for people who just want to live alone in the woods and drink beer and think about stuff.

(there are a lot more of them, I just have to separate the interesting ones from my attempts at gibberish poetry and thought experiments about sharing a joint with Franz Kafka)

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I like a lot of these things!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I rather like these.

[EK WAFFLR]

I like this. A lot.

[Golden Applesauce]

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

My most successful long-term mindfuck is to be nice to audibly appreciative to waiters, cashiers, call center people, etc. Just because they're being paid to helpful doesn't mean they should be appreciated any less.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

My most successful long-term mindfuck is to be nice to audibly appreciative to waiters, cashiers, call center people, etc. Just because they're being paid to helpful doesn't mean they should be appreciated any less.

YES I like this!

[Doktor Howl]

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

My most successful long-term mindfuck is to be nice to audibly appreciative to waiters, cashiers, call center people, etc. Just because they're being paid to helpful doesn't mean they should be appreciated any less.

I do that, too.  It makes them feel better, and it makes ME feel better, and it makes the person in line behind me more likely to do the same thing.

[Left]

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

Yup. 
Funny, I got over social anxiety, now I just have agoraphobia. 
I am no longer thinking"they are laughing at me," I am thinking "They may want to kill me."
This feels like progress.

#5
The concept of normality is strange.
You can be a huge fucking asshole and still be considered normal. You can wear slightly weird clothes, behave slightly weird, talk slightly weird, look slightly weird and suddenly you're an outsider. It doesn't really surprise me then, that half of Norway seems to be mentally ill at times, when the idea of normality is so narrow that you almost need to be crazy to fit in. We live in an awfully conformist society. I want to fight for a warmer and weirder society with a more inclusive idea of what normality is.

I think the majority of people are slightly insane, some just hide it better.
I find being visibly weird a good filtration device.  Basically, all the people who'd reject you anyway when they found out about you can reject you immediately.  It saves time.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

My most successful long-term mindfuck is to be nice to audibly appreciative to waiters, cashiers, call center people, etc. Just because they're being paid to helpful doesn't mean they should be appreciated any less.

I do that, too.  It makes them feel better, and it makes ME feel better, and it makes the person in line behind me more likely to do the same thing.

It is awesome and I am 100% in favor. It makes their day a little bit nicer and that is never a bad thing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

#3
It is hereby decreed that:
LIFE is too short and nasty, and the world too full of shit, for good people to be allowed to walk around without being appreciated, without being let to know that they, by existing, make the/my world a little bit warmer, a little bit friendlier and a little bit more beautiful.

THIS DECREE SUPERSEDES ALL SOCIAL ANXIETY

Yup. 
Funny, I got over social anxiety, now I just have agoraphobia. 
I am no longer thinking"they are laughing at me," I am thinking "They may want to kill me."
This feels like progress.

#5
The concept of normality is strange.
You can be a huge fucking asshole and still be considered normal. You can wear slightly weird clothes, behave slightly weird, talk slightly weird, look slightly weird and suddenly you're an outsider. It doesn't really surprise me then, that half of Norway seems to be mentally ill at times, when the idea of normality is so narrow that you almost need to be crazy to fit in. We live in an awfully conformist society. I want to fight for a warmer and weirder society with a more inclusive idea of what normality is.

I think the majority of people are slightly insane, some just hide it better.
I find being visibly weird a good filtration device.  Basically, all the people who'd reject you anyway when they found out about you can reject you immediately.  It saves time.

The majority of people are 100% sane, but they have been led to believe that their completely normal idiosyncracies are somehow abnormal.

[Lenin McCarthy]

+1000 at being unusually nice to people.

Yesterday I hitchhiked for the first time ever. I like to think I made a lonely 50-something on disability benefits (this is what I imagine he was, I don't know exactly) feel a little bit more useful and appreciated during those 5 kilometres.

[Left]

+1000 at being unusually nice to people.

Yesterday I hitchhiked for the first time ever. I like to think I made a lonely 50-something on disability benefits (this is what I imagine he was, I don't know exactly) feel a little bit more useful and appreciated during those 5 kilometres.

I like to practice random acts of kindness, too. 
I also like to donate  a bag of food to the food bank barrel when having a shitty day.  Makes me feel better.

[Lenin McCarthy]

#9
If I ever get in a position where I have to write job adverts, I will insist on including "introversion", "sober, realistic outlook on life", "ambivalent relationship to humanity" and "healthy skepticism towards authority figures" in the list of desirable personal qualities.