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chessiegirl

As Time Goes By

Aug 23, 2005 23:11

The longer I wander through life, the more I don't feel a part of it. This isn't anything new, I've always felt this way, like a stranger peeping in. There's probably some deep-seated psychological reason for this but I'd rather not know what it is. I'm sure it can't be something normal and nice ( Read more... )

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Becoming jigsawpig August 24 2005, 07:21:15 UTC

I think this feeling is entirely normal, and shared by everyone, even if they don't acknowledge it, or even identify it. In fact there is a whole philosophy which takes this very feeling of 'otherness' from people, and from things, as its starting point. I remember reading Sartre's "Nausea" when I was at college, and feeling an enormous sense of relief and reassurance because finally I had found someone who articulated and explained what I had always felt, deep down, and had previously had no way of understanding ( ... )

Re: Becoming jigsawpig August 25 2005, 04:54:22 UTC

It could be the age thing, JP, I don't know. It does sound reasonable that I would be noticing it more and more as I get older ( ... )

Re: Becoming jigsawpig August 25 2005, 06:26:58 UTC

OK, the breakdown of people going out the correct exit:

People who had been told where it was on a previous visit: 90%
People who just followed other people going out of it: 9%
People who found it by accident: 0.9%
Brain Surgeons and Rocket Scientists: 0.1%

Trust me on this, I have spent a lifetime observing people.

Re: Becoming horizonpurple August 29 2005, 07:13:36 UTC

I just don't "get things" like other people.

Nor me. I spend half my life peering around for signs to tell me what everyone else seems to know, and not asking for help because if everyone else knows it, why don't i?