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   Rhema Wordposted 10 years ago

   “Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company.” ― Mandy Hale

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      Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      "I get on my last nerve."
      Sed-me

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      bBereanposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I might be able to one up that. 
      
      "Nothing is more liberating than apathy".  - facetiously by bBerean

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   I believe there are those of us who feel eternally alone , no matter what or who surrounds us . I for one  am always  on the edge of being alone, sometimes I chose it  . Yet I have moved beyond the negative feeling of it itself , and live with a deeper contemplative hollowness of it mostly  !    Being here helps !

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      Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Your so right. I went to see a therapist once, and he told me I was "desperately lonely and had been my whole life." I don't know why that was such a revelation to me, but it was. I never go to therapy, b/c they've never said anything I hadn't thought of myself, but that one really stuck out to me as a revelation, though it seems so simple.

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      bBereanposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      "...sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone." 
      
                                                                                                            -- Billy Joel

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         Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         "Sometimes, you wanna go... where everybody knows your name."
         Cheers

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   bBereanposted 10 years ago

   Exactly!  Or at least your screen name.

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      Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Here we like to say, "I care about him, and each of his sock puppets equally."

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   Once I considered myself an intelligent man , now though , Yeaa  now it's me and my sock puppets , hey I'm human , what can I say !

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      Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Do you have sock puppets? What do you need them for?

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   Sed-me , we all reach out for our sanity in our own ways  don't we . I do have one with you on it though !.......:-}

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      Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting. I will go try to figure it out.

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      Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I knew it, you are Wrylilt... how do you know so much about breast feeding? Never mind. I don't want to know.

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   Nope , I simply Ahorseback !

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   Nope , I simply Ahorseback !

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   Nope , I simply Ahorseback !

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   ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

   Oh , and I recall what you said about my poetry once in a forum ,and I beamed  for days , thank you from the bottom of what heart I have  left !

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    Phyllis Doyleposted 10 years ago

    Sophia Loren, in her autobiography, said something like "Learn to love yourself, so when you are alone you will be in good company."

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    ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

    Hi Phyllis , Yes ..........do I ever love that woman !   She once fell in love with Walter Matheau in  Grumpy old men !

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       Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

       If I were a man, I would have loved Maureen O'Hara. She was beautiful, funny, down to earth... loved her accent. She and Lauren Bacall were just so beautiful.

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          Phyllis Doyleposted 10 years agoin reply to this

          Yes - those two were real ladies and so lovely.

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             Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

             Maureen and John Wayne... I sound like Im 100 years old, but they were the best.
             He was a man's man. She was a tough cookie, but feminine. I love all those old couples... Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn... they were just so romantic. I think it's my weird meds talking. lol

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       Phyllis Doyleposted 10 years agoin reply to this

       Greetings, Ed. Sophia Loren is the epitome of woman. I remember she also said the she wears a touch of red every day because red is energy and positive. "Even if you can't see it I wear red every day." She said. She was so lonely after she lost Carlo Ponte, until she began to realize how valuable it is to love Self..

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    ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

    Yes , that's so true , for me its all a mirage though ! Is there ever a truly awesome love !   Why does it evade so many ?  How teasingly  perfect love really is .

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       Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

       I guess there comes a time where we realize love never had anything to do with what we got and everything to do with what we gave. We'll never feel loved by receiving like we will in giving. It seems so backwards, but God's ways are higher than ours.

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          ahorsebackposted 10 years agoin reply to this

          You said it right here in these words ! " with what we gave " ,  you on my friend , you won.

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    ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

    Umm , I believe that you  truly have it together my friend !

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       Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

       Oh sure... I know everything. Just ask me. It's the implementation of all the good things I know that I struggle with.

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    ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

    "in what we gave " !  I believe that about says it all ! and you know what , you said it .

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       Sed-meposted 10 years agoin reply to this

       Thanks Ed.

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    ahorsebackposted 10 years ago

    Strange in a way isn't it , Too have had it all yet yearn for more !  I love the "wearing red " thing , my God that woman was gorgeous !

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