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Wild water

Baked Apple

Vincent Vega ~ "Pulp Fiction"

I'm 5 years older than you, Bev, and volunteering at the local hospital is a social contact zone that works for me. It's also a purposeful function that most of the patients I visit with are glad for. Most of them........there are a few who refuse any dialog with me.

This thread was inactive for 14 years....but it still resonates with me. I gave up on any close social life, meaningful purpose in life and on any happiness too, when I was about 30 years old. I did work at a paying job and maintained the logistics of a life, but I needed to get drunk every...

Belonging somewhere with a group I could think of as my "tribe" has always been an issue for me. Every Saturday morning from June through October I have a booth at the farmers market.....I belong there and it's kind of a big deal for me. I volunteer every week at the local hospital and I've...

My costumed trick or treating days are long gone. Now, Halloween for me means stocking up on milk chocolate bars and giving them away to the youngsters who come calling.

Deep Fried

As an almost social isolate, I fear aging into feebleness and/or dementia with no one who cares that I'm deteriorating. My response to that fear? I eat healthy and exercise every day. But eventually time's inexorable passage will take its toll. The deliberate, quick and final exit is probably...

Apple Core

We're in a similar situation ardour. The terms you use: unlived youth, unlikely to try for a family and a "normal life" being out of the question, all those phrases resonate with me.....a lot. But I'm older than you are, by more than twenty years. May I suggest that if "normalcy" (whatever...

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Depression is no stranger to me either. My version isn't severe but rather a persistent, lifelong inability to enjoy much of anything. A life without pleasure isn't very conducive to pursuing or maintaining close relationships so at my age, I've accepted that I'm basically a social isolate. I...

Hello Mike179. Congratulations on having survived what life has dished out to you. May your journey from now on be everything you wish for. I hope this forum is good for you.....it helped me through some dark zones a few years ago.

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