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My brother and just life and stuff
Meh:
Today was my day off from work, I got on a bus went over to a small down-town area of an adjacent city. Got some Chicken Satay for late-lunch. After I walked out of the restaurant and was standing by a bus stop a fire engine showed up, an ambulance showed up and the city sheriff showed up in an suv.
There was a man in a wheel chair on the side walk that was the focal point and some guy standing somewhere near him that I guess had called the emergency services, maybe a neighbor, maybe his care taker I am not sure. Maybe the guy in the wheel chair was suicidal. Again I am not sure what the detail was about that. The guy in the wheel chair was yelling no when the fireman tried to get close to him etc. It was an electronic wheel chair and in the process of trying to get away from the fireman was going out into traffic and blocking traffic etc.
Well like clock work there was a car packed full of 4-5 people guys and one gal who parked in the parking lot across the street and then started yelling at the man in the wheel chair heckling him. Although young they certainly didn't look like teenagers. When the excitement died down they drove away seemingly not really having any other reason to be there and then when they drove by I flipped them off. Of course I should not have done that.
I could be silly for saying this. When emergency services show up should it not be illegal to harass the situation?
Meh:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on October 15, 2013, 07:35:01 AM ---Hey Boat,
I'm wishing there were a more cheerful house for you to share...are you on your own for finding a room to rent? Just looking up notices, etc?
I understand what you mean about spirituality being harder to find when you're down. I'm feeling that way too. For me, it's about winter coming. I've been saying to myself stuff like: All you have to do now is get up, do the day, endure it, and spring is going to come.
I'm feeling isolated again and really need to do something about it. My schedule makes it hard. I think living alone wouldn't be so hard if I had some way of meeting a friend during the week. Now, with the pooch, I have to come home first and take care of her, and so then it's hard to unplug myself to go out again just for some human connection in an evening. But I need to, so my project is to figure out how.
I think if she can go with me and wait in the car, since it's no longer hot out, that'd be better...
Chin up Boat...this too shall get better. (I like meditation that's not "about" spirituality but just lets me connect with whatever I can connect with that day, without labeling it...)
hugs
Hops
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Yeah I guess we go through stages and phases. Just noticing that the things I used to do in my free time have fallen by the way side and my beliefs have also kind of been stripped away and useless. shrug oh well
Meh:
Yah I have nothing much to say only that I am rather lonely. Have to work tomorrow yay!
Hopalong:
(((((((((((((((((((Boat Bean)))))))))))))))))))
I like it a lot when people say they're lonely.
It is so taboo to admit it in many settings...like we're all supposed to be flippin' cowboys or robots...
I have thought and written and felt a lot about loneliness.
Even recently. I hate it.
But I do know it can come and go, if I remember to keep
a light expectation of good things (and stay "out there" -- volunteering, parking my
butt in the UU pew even if I'm not in the mood since I always feel better after the service).
I think, for me, it's like --- there, i recognize myself as an organism that lives in community.
When I don't go for long stretches, I am an organism that lives in isolation. Plus, the
repetition of seeing the same faces, like 'em or not, week after week, means that I am
actually experiencing belonging.
And in small classes or groups, I get to know people. We schedule stuff.
I think a volunteer gig could produce very similar results, too.
hugs
Hops
Meh:
Hum well I wouldn't mind a lonely cowboy :P don't think they go to church much.
I agree with you Hops that lonliness is something that most people probably don't want to admit to but if asked directly most people would probably admit that they get lonely. There are a lot of factors rolled into it I guess. Maybe I will come back and write about it maybe not. I'm used to being alone, took me a long time to understand when I was feeling lonely and what that feeling sense was. Guess it has become my mode of operation almost. During times of stress I feel it more.
It's a good thing that you have your church routine going on for you, also liked the way you mentioned that some of the people you like to see and maybe some others not so much because that really IS the truth of social situations one can not rule out going just because there maybe some people one does not feel comfortable around because there is bound to be somebody who clicks.
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