What is this…a friggin sing-a-long? Undisclosed, here’s the deal. 75% of the members here are chronically depressed. Always bitchin about this or that, pouting about loss of meaning, absence of value, yada yada. I bring a box of tissues with me every time I come here, prepared for some heart wrenching story and testimony.
…and now I find you in mourning singing some sad song. Please, dear, this is a minor problem. How would you like to know that the entire universe is going to be sucked into a black-hole and crushed to a point of infinite density? And you are worried about your ex-boyfriend? Tell him we’ve got bigger problems, and that you have no time for these trivial matters.
Now, stand up straight…take a deep breath…and repeat after me:
"I, [insert name], am not shallow. I am deeper than a million oceans. I am not phoney. I am, in fact, quite possibly the only thing that I can be certain is NOT phoney(Descartes will back me up). I am not empty. I am full of [insert theme] and overflowing with [insert theme].
But I will admit one thing, Mr. [insert last name of ex-boyfriend], you got one part right. I am different, and certainly not like you. It’s about time we broke up, [wink at him]."
That is correct. My association with the contemporary bourgeois ambivalence of modern society usually begins the moment I walk out of my door in the morning. I would not know what to do if I wasn’t immediately struck with the insipidness of the average philistine whom I suspect an encounter with first thing in the morning.
People piss me off like clockwork. I’m useless without some sort of conflict at hand.
wonderful i’m glad that the boards are continually changing the context of threads to talk about something completely different by the third page or so. isn’t this supposed to be about how we feel different…not “look at me yell the loudest! Deal with me! or Look at me being a jackass!” For Chrissakes numbnuts take your goddamn rants somewhere else!
now back to the topic…
…do “I” feel different…yes.
man never mind…go back to your rants…this topic was dumb to begin with…no wonder you guys like to spruce things up a bit with your bitching. so i’ll end with saying:
“Keep it up! You’re doing a killer job.!”
I thought the last posts were quite on topic . The level of communication could be not well understood by ‘normal’ people. But I thought it was quite entertaining .
I think we all feel we’re different from others because we are all born unique in our own ways and we go through a combination of experiences that is in itself unique as well. So, I’d say that if we didn’t feel different from others THEN, we’d be different, but not otherwise. So let’s say we’re all normal IF we feel different from others.
I’d say that the majority just does not emphasize that they feel different from others. Although it is also true that some of us can go through EXTREME circumstances and so we start to feel really different from others and that is understandable. So the reason the majority does not feel different could be because their circumstances have not been that diverse or remarkable. So they don’t remark. How was that?
I think average people are labelled ‘normal’. they are the majoriy, and its in fact us all, but perhaps in other time and other circumstance. I believe everyone has periods when he/she feels different and perceives that difference with more sensitivity than the rest. the ‘normal’ average are not to be doomed as insensitive, or more primitive for their weakened perception of the difference.
they may accept, are aware of and acknowledge the ‘difference’ as well as those who claim to feel it more, they(the normal ones) just perhaps can put up with it easier.
I believe everyone feels the difference and has queries about it, in some that feeling is deteriorated, or supressed by the daily prosaic, routine or problems. but in the border situations we are made of the same stuff.
After a substantial time something like 5 months I was out of touch with my friends , I lived with my family exclusively and now that I met my old friends I indeed felt rather different, in both me and them the difference that we perceived when we studied and lived toghether deepened now.
I know that if I stayed with them longer now I would be more like them, but my identity, the difference that is characteristic for me even strengthened.
. The level of communication could be not well understood by ‘normal’ people. But I thought it was quite entertaining 
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