Hope?

[kathrynrose]

If you mention the movie Oliver!, most people are probably going to think, "Please, Sir, may I have some more?" This, followed by a bunch of kids singing and dancing about being hungry. (That's ok. I grew up with musical theater, and over the years people have sung and danced through a lot of incongruous subjects.)

When I think of Oliver!, I

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[shadowwolf13]

Hope is beautiful and so is this.

[kathrynrose]

Aww! Thanks! ::hugs::

[millysdaughter]

That lonely, hopeless, stuck-in-the-basement feeling? That's what's been echoing through so many people I know for the past several months. It's pervasive, and draining and contagious, and recurrent.

One friend is managing it by abandoning Facebook for Twitter. I suck at Twitter; I usually take a break or two every week from social media in general.

I think this might be the answer. I think facebook is contributing to my soul-crushing loneliness

[kathrynrose]

What she says she likes about twitter (and I kind of "get" it) is if she sees something she 'likes' on twitter, she can see that a thousand other people agreed and liked it too.

For me twitter is hard because 1. you can't filter who sees it and 2. 140 characters. It's hard to say anything by the time you add the @who-you-are-writing-to and the #what-you-are-writing-about.

I like words and sentences and paragraphs!

[millysdaughter]

oh, not twitter - I would not like that At All!
I meant the idea
I usually take a break or two every week from social media in general.
of backing away from the book of face for a few weeks
months
years

[kathrynrose]

Oh. heh. Yeah. :)

[mamas_minion]

This is a very timely and important message. I have fully checked out of FB, I am still getting information through NPR. I hope when the time comes I will be able to do something positive.

[rayaso]

This was such a thoughtful and sad essay. The children were a ray of hope. Political "discussion" on the internet is pretty fierce these days.

[eternal_ot]

I just keep on wondering if it is just me who is weaning off social media, so this resonated a lot with me at the moment and it is all I needed right now :) Thanks for the dose of hope <3