[originally posted on my blog, 12/23/10: thought I'd share it here...]
Last night I sent out a tweet saying Sometimes I feel very, very alone.
I got a lot of replies to that tweet, which is touching really. There are some people who honestly do care, and for that Im grateful. But I felt the need to clarify with a follow up tweet: Feeling...
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Last night I sent out a tweet saying Sometimes I feel very, very alone.
I got a lot of replies to that tweet, which is touching really. There are some people who honestly do care, and for that Im grateful. But I felt the need to clarify with a follow up tweet: Feeling...
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Just stalked my old LiveJournal and checked out my bio. This is what I had under Interests a good 7 years ago:
420, 80s, accessories, acid-jazz, acting, analyzing, aronofsky films, art, attitude, auditioning, barbara bui, barneys new york, bisexuality, bjork, bonfire madigan, breakfast at tiffanys, california, candles, chanel, cherries, classic rock, clothing design, coloring outside the lines, colors, cooking, crafting, crocheting, dancer in the dark,...
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420, 80s, accessories, acid-jazz, acting, analyzing, aronofsky films, art, attitude, auditioning, barbara bui, barneys new york, bisexuality, bjork, bonfire madigan, breakfast at tiffanys, california, candles, chanel, cherries, classic rock, clothing design, coloring outside the lines, colors, cooking, crafting, crocheting, dancer in the dark,...
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jensen:
Thank you Alana! It won't let you add me until my set goes up 
. I know this because I tried to add a girl approx. ten times before her set was up until I finally asked, haha.
. I know this because I tried to add a girl approx. ten times before her set was up until I finally asked, haha.
kimkat:
AMAZING. Was this before or after the Cali move?
carlovely:
AMAZING
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alanajoy:
Thanks for you comment! I guess you and I are the same but also different: I enjoy writing! Writing helps me process the hailstorm of thoughts and work them out: between me and the pen (or keyboard, alternately).
pandie:
That's one sexy and intelligent looking brain up there, Checking out your blog now, looking forward to working with you!! xo
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alanajoy:
Aww thanks
alanajoy:
Looking for a savior in these dirty streets...
Erich Fromm wrote of the need for kindred spirits in his book The Fear of Freedom.
He quotes Balzac in a passage from The Inventors Suffering.
But learn one thing; impress it upon your mind which is still so malleable: man has a horror of aloneness. And of all kinds of aloneness, moral aloneness is the most terrible
The work of Fromm in this book The Fear of Freedom is an attempt to explain our relationship with the wider world, to its cultural pressures and the complex inter relations between self and society. Essential reading I would have thought for anyone interested in why it is we feel that urge to communicate.
You are right, loneliness is natural and to be expected.