Do you really feel lonelier as you grow older?
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Seems like the topic doesn't apply much to a certain class of people.
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Ah well, in the forums, topics don't always stick to the thread but it's ok because you get to speak your mind and exchange views all the same.Originally posted by M©+square:To both:
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Sometimes it takes the presence of pain to show joy, or the lack of joy, in a clearer way.And have you noticed that the best works deal with feeling and when you see reality around you, cheerfulness is something transient, for we all slog and work and worry so much so that cheefulness has been downgraded to another emotion.It has lost its place as our primary emotion and to be able to feel this loss, is to feel that same pain inside you.
Din have any lit back ground, just another common less eudcated 'boor' who know no such gentlement way of phrasing nice sentence to show how loniness can do so much to make anyone feeling pathetic.
Those who can't write, Teach.
Those who can't teach, talk.
Those who have aplenty 'free time', yearn company.
Those who have too much friends, yearn personal time.
Time spent with friends??? Quality or just to pass time. Time is wasted the very moment when the things people do in a company is not useful.
Don't really understand the meaning of chatting when all about it is only to curse boss, gossip about other people????
Loniness is not about alone, its about not finding the right things to do.. the right people to share your interest or to do things together.
Far apart may true friends be, a simple call is all friends need. Pressence in the heart is all one need not to feel lonely becuz true friends are always there when your in need. Use the time wisely find the right company, lonely is just a journey for those who seek the right company.
Don't lose hope..... Wait till you are 50, you will wish you have spend more time for your dream than waste time on pretenious 'acquaintance' befriending you for what you can give.
Family is always there for you. look closely and you shd find them your best friend.
Cheers
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Double posting sorry
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Fun Seeker. I see you're pretty new to sgForums. Welcome.
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Yeah same as mine.Paper 8.Was compulsory for my schoolOriginally posted by Rhonda:Nope... are we talking about the same paper? E7? Or have they modified the syllabus since?
The prac crit paper I did did not require us to read any book in advance because you'd be surprised with 1-2 poems and another 1-2 prose and asked questions on them. It was considered a tough paper and I heard a lot of JC's dropped E7 in their Lit course because it was simply too tough to prepare students for something so ad-hoc.
The paper you mentioned sounds very unfamiliar to me...
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Nope, different paper. E7 and E8 are both Practical Criticism but I have been told that E7 poses more of a challenge cause you never know what you'll get at all.Originally posted by LazerLordz:Yeah same as mine.Paper 8.Was compulsory for my school
Anyways, we've hijacked this thread.
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Yah.Let's shift it back onto the road..Originally posted by Rhonda:Nope, different paper. E7 and E8 are both Practical Criticism but I have been told that E7 poses more of a challenge cause you never know what you'll get at all.
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As I get older I find that phrase so true & comforting!Originally posted by Fun Seeker:Quote
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Family is always there for you. look closely and you shd find them your best friend.
Cheers As the saying goes, blood runs thicker than water! -
well, there are people who hate their families guts and derive solace from "friends". fortunately i'm not one of them.Originally posted by SydneyLibrarian:As I get older I find that phrase so true & comforting! As the saying goes, blood runs thicker than water!
i can't figure out how this can be, unless the family is only trying to abuse/exploit them. sometimes, kids are just too rebellious.
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sometimes i enjoy feeling melancholic (just once in a while). does anyone else?
The Hours (by Virginia Wolf) is a great book to accompany that mood. -
*puts her hands up high!Originally posted by ilovemyrolex:sometimes i enjoy feeling melancholic (just once in a while). does anyone else?
... and I'm jolly glad that you acknowledged indulging in that feeling once in a while because suddenly, I don't feel that alone anymore!
With melancholy comes self-reflection and a sort of pensiveness and we can actually channel that to good use. I'd rather have moments of gravity then to be all bouncy and chirpy and highly-inflated all the time. -
dun feel alone.. coz lonely is not necessary a bad thing.. it means i can do wat i want, go whereever i want, at whichever time... u dun hv to be worried about saying the wrong thing, or be sensitive to wat others say... it's jus oneself, nobody bt urself...Originally posted by Rhonda:*puts her hands up high!
... and I'm jolly glad that you acknowledged indulging in that feeling once in a while because suddenly, I don't feel that alone anymore! 
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And I understand that sentiment and situation extremely well because afterall, I moved out when I was ... 21 or 22 years old and have been living alone for donkey years now.Originally posted by flow:dun feel alone.. coz lonely is not necessary a bad thing.. it means i can do wat i want, go whereever i want, at whichever time... u dun hv to be worried about saying the wrong thing, or be sensitive to wat others say... it's jus oneself, nobody bt urself...
I suspect that for me, I might actually face an opposite problem - that of having someone else in my life once again because I've grown so used to living in solitude after all these years!