~ Happy New Year ~

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Happy late New Year! I am no longer the delicious member.

You'll always be delicious in my book.

and in mine too darlin mwah

I like to think I've earned my reputation
For trying to take the bull by the horns
I'll show you where I get my inspiration
Where we plow and where we plant the corn

I like to think I've earned my reputation
For rushing in where angels fear to tread
I'll take you home to meet the congregation
We'll all get together in my tent

You bastard, I now will go all day with that song stuck in my head just because you used that phrase, atleast its a good song
The complete lyrics

Originally Posted By: DxLISHxISx_43

Happy late New Year!

:cry: I am no longer the delicious member.

Well we just cannot have that now can we?? *hugs*

I knew I was gonna spend New Years Eve alone so I had this thought that I would do something significant...you know, like drive to the lake and meditate about what I want and who I want to be and all that (based on the idea that being alone this night wasn't a crime and that next year would be better).Instead I sat on my recliner watching television and playing Sims on my laptop.When you take the pressure off yourself and stop buying into the myth that being a lone = being a loser (a hard hurdle for me to jump), it becomes not so bad.I was actually ready to go back to work today. I was bored.

That is kinda funny actually. I told someone once (whom I didn't like) that " you're only lonely when your alone, because you're in shitty company." It was mean, but in a way its true, if you like yourself, being alone isn't so bad. Plus that part of alone=being a loser, your right, that isn't what it means.

That statment just shows your age Damien. Mental age I mean. Its something I used to belive in myself long ago. If you think you need someone else to make you happy your not very mature. How can you make anyone happy when your incapable of being happy yourself?Sounds like you finally got it figured out though, and it goes along way towards making yourself happy and then a better life once you realize that being alone is just fucking dandy.I still like time alone, I go for a week or so alone in the high uinta wilderness each year and have been doing so since I was about 19. Back pack 10 or 20 miles in and set up a small camp for a week, bring a couple books and a fly fishing set. Ther is nothing like a night alone in deep woods with wild shit around to put you back to reality. It scares me each time I do it and have more than once woke up to moose with in a few feet of my tent in the middle of the night. While Iv seen bear there, Iv never had an experience at night with them and its normally seeing them a couple hundred yards off during a hike that I spot them.I wouldnt really call it meditation since I do alot of shit up there and take alot of pics, but it does set me back to basic and makes me remember how good being alone can be.Your only a loser for being alone if you think your a loser, and that goes alot further than jsut not having a significant other.You just finished college, your young, why the fuck would you want to fuck up a good time in life with being tied to one person anyways?Take your time, I was alone for years and was married most of that time, after that I was alone but had alot of sex for several more years. It took me until I was 32 to find someone that was worth being with. The only time I consider myself a loser is when I lose a game, and I dont apply that to the rest of my life, just to that single incident.Anyone that ties happy and nonloserness to being with someone else, they are a fucking loser.I think I put into a hella lot more words what pepsi said so nicely with only a few.If your lonely when your alone, its only because of having such shitty company.

Good words. Thanks Chance.
Don't get me wrong, I'd really love to be in a relationship. If fact...there's this girl I've seen a few times at the library (where she works) and at the video store (where I was trying to make sure she didn't see that I was renting Jackass!)...
I'd love to be married soon. But I'm not rushing it. And I'm not a loser cause I'm not married. Especially around here where the divorce rate is like 12 divorces per person.
I've just, in the past, allowed myself to believe the myth that someone who sits at home on Friday night or (gasp!) New Years Eve is a loser. No one told me that. I just kind of believed it. Now, I choose to be alone of Fridays cause I'm usually tired. New Years Eve...I would have loved to spend it with some folks but I just don't have them down here...yet. That will change soon, I really believe.
But in the meantime I'm gonna use my alone time wisely and cherish it cause I know a time will come when I won't have it.

and all I can offer is more song lyrics from one of my all time faves, Warren Zevon.

I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe
I want to live on the Upper East Side
And never go down in the street

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Michael Jackson in Disneyland
Don't have to share it with nobody else
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Don't want to wake up with no one beside me
Don't want to take up with nobody new
Don't want nobody coming by without calling first
Don't want nothing to do with you

I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation