Wankery

[victorine]

Tonight, I went out to meet up with a friend who was in town for the Stumptown Comic Fest. It was really nice to get to catch up. After we parted, I went to the Lovecraft Bar. I feel like a stranger tonight. I don't know anyone and no one knows me. It's strange and lonely, and at the same time, ok. I wonder sometimes, if my desires are at odds with

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[marrus]

New Orleans has such an effortless street culture that we're always bumping into someone we know in a bar, passing a friend on a bike, stopping in to a shop cuz we know the owner. And it's a TINY town - the 100 of us and the kazillion tourists - it's easy to know who lives here.

I suspect that your being so used to this makes it more difficult where you are, and I'm sorry you're sad. It's also more challenging to make new friends as we get older. Even if we make an effort (and it DOES take effort), our lives begin to diverge so wildly in or 30s & 40s that it can be difficult to even talk on common ground, let alone build a friendship.

Central Grocery WILL ship the tapenade, though;)

[cuntishness]

I find that the older I get the more difficult it is for me to create friendships. Part of it is certainly my standards for treatment are different, but some of it is that thing. That fucking weird thing.

And though I can't say that I know how you feel, I imagine it would be difficult. And I'm sorry that you're feeling lonely.

[vagabondesque]

I feel ya. It's been so isolating being in Denver this time. I'm so ready to move back South. I'm still ok going places on my own, being there alone, leaving alone... But I miss having a pool of social contacts to reach out to when I'm feeling lonely... I also agree that it seems more difficult to make friends and bond the older I get. <3 I don't know why that's true for so many of us.