This is gonna be pretty emo, so be prepared

[paper_midget]

I 've been thinking about my involvement in different group settings. Social workers would call these systems. Thing is, I'm involved in a lot. However, I just don't feel like I'm a part of them. I have the best friends in the world and I am totally a part of that system but there are other groups that I feel like it is impossible for me to break

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[bluevenuscries]

i can relate to this. its not that id like to be apart of some "systems" around me, what bothers me is that it seems like theres not an invitation to enter the system, like really enter it.

"Oh yeah, we love Kathy." But it stops there.

sometimes i think its paranoia

[paper_midget]

Yeah, its like you shouldn't care...but you do...

This is odd, cause it's a reoccuring topic for me lately!

[arinjo42]

You have read kurt vonnegut's "cat's cradle", no?

These are, in his made up religion of bokononism, called "False Karasses". A real karass is made up of people who are intertwined spiritually, revolving around a specific item called a Wampeter. the Wampeter can change, waxing and waning through out your life time. However, the people in your karass are out of your control- the people who you just can't seem to keep out of your life. It's possible to only meet some of them once, but you are intertwined none the less. These are the ones who affect you, who get you. It's totally made up and the words are silly, but it makes a lot of sense to me. I'm no bokononist, but I would say not to worry about the people in these made up, superficial groups. What do they really mean in your life? How do they truly contribute? You are amazing and they are missing out.

<3

Re: This is odd, cause it's a reoccuring topic for me lately!

[paper_midget]

I think you made all that up...and thanks:) Hanging out should happen this summer...

Re: This is odd, cause it's a reoccuring topic for me lately!

[arinjo42]

Absolutely to the hanging out. Lets start as soon as possible.