Teh Suckz Thread

[fleacollar999]

Oh, no, I'm so sorry, Almy! I hope she's okay?

[Trethowan]

Making Friends 101

1. Join a club, church, and/or school group to meet like-minded people.
2. Get involved and active in your school or community.
3. Don't try to be the center of attention. Show interest in other people first.
4. Don't throw yourself pity parties. Nobody likes to attend and you'll find yourself either ignored or avoided.
5. Be yourself, genuine, and listen to others. People like to be heard and when it's your turn to talk, they'll be more likely to listen.
6. Avoid gossip, drama, and strife-mongering people. They only drag you down.

Friendships sometimes just last a season, sometimes a lifetime. When a season ends, don't be too hung up over it or let it drag you into a negative frame of mind. Let them go and focus on moving forward. Make new, quality friends. Quality is always more important than quantity. Who cares if you have twenty flaky friends that aren't really even friends? Better to have a few good ones that care about you as a person.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I'm sorry to hear the news Almy.

[DollyKim]

If all that counted in life were the people you knew in school I would have shot someone, either them or me. I wasn't socialized properly as a child then horribly bullied so if it comes down to just that as a measure of your life mine would truly be f00ked. You found us doll people so obviously you can find others.

Best hope for recovery with your grandmother, I've been around stroke survivors and there's a good chance she'll make a good recovery. It will get better, all things must fart.

[fleacollar999]

Friendships sometimes just last a season, sometimes a lifetime. When a season ends, don't be too hung up over it or let it drag you into a negative frame of mind. Let them go and focus on moving forward. Make new, quality friends. Quality is always more important than quantity. Who cares if you have twenty flaky friends that aren't really even friends? Better to have a few good ones that care about you as a person.

If all that counted in life were the people you knew in school I would have shot someone, either them or me. I wasn't socialized properly as a child then horribly bullied so if it comes down to just that as a measure of your life mine would truly be f00ked. You found us doll people so obviously you can find others.

You guys are right... I need to stop being so self-absorbed with the whole "oh my friends left me I must suck as a person" thing and start looking outside myself for new friends. Hopefully people who will stick around, this time.

Thanks for the Words O' Wisdom, they helped

[Yanagi-sen]

I'm not even still friends with most of the people I went to college with. Friends come into and out of your life. Some of my very BEST friends are people I 'met' online, and then met in person for the first time at a convention and we even shared a hotel room! My goodness, Kiki... it's been 10 years now!!!!! Anyway... don't regret losing touch with people, move on and up! ^__^

[Geektopian]

I'm just reeling over a terrible crime that happened here today and finding out who did it. What an absolutely freaky, scary afternoon.

[Geektopian]

OK, the media and the cops have come and gone so I feel a little more free to discuss this in a public forum. Basically, yesterday afternoon, one of my neighbors walked in to a nearby restaurant and shot five people at random. He's lived here for six or seven years and while he's always seemed a bit "odd", I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe he was violent. In fact, he's rather well known in local politics as a staunch gun control advocate!

Like I said yesterday, absolutely freaky and scary. It's hard to absorb that this maniac has been living just across the street from me for years.

[famedglory]

OK, the media and the cops have come and gone so I feel a little more free to discuss this in a public forum. Basically, yesterday afternoon, one of my neighbors walked in to a nearby restaurant and shot five people at random. He's lived here for six or seven years and while he's always seemed a bit "odd", I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe he was violent. In fact, he's rather well known in local politics as a staunch gun control advocate!

Like I said yesterday, absolutely freaky and scary. It's hard to absorb that this maniac has been living just across the street from me for years.

Mlatch that is so scary. Thank goodness you and your family are alright. Do you know the condition of the poor people who were shot?

[OkamiKodomo]

Yikes that is scary. o.O And I'm used to living around neighborhoods with routine shoot-outs. At least the ones that have happened around me were all gang-related, not this random violence.... Glad you're ok, Mlatch.

[Geektopian]

Mlatch that is so scary. Thank goodness you and your family are alright. Do you know the condition of the poor people who were shot?

They're all alive right now although two of them are in really bad shape. One victim was shot in the chest and the bullet just missed her heart before lodging near her spine. Another is on a respirator until his windpipe can heal. Thankfully, they were just a couple blocks from the big regional hospital that handles trauma care.

Yikes that is scary. o.O And I'm used to living around neighborhoods with routine shoot-outs. At least the ones that have happened around me were all gang-related, not this random violence.... Glad you're ok, Mlatch.

Okami, that's what my wife and I were discussing last night. We lived in New Orleans for 14 years, including the horrifically violent early 90s when there were well over 400 murders a year in a city with less than a half-million people. Most of it was gang-related or robberies along with the occasional disgruntled former employee or domestic violence. This was totally random and so far, they have no motive. The scuttlebutt from the local PD is that he freely talked but it was all some rambling political diatribe that had no connection to the crime. What is most troubling is not only that this was done by a person who has lived just across the street from me for the last 6 or 7 years but also that it was a totally random crime with no apparent motive. Like I said, this dude was pretty odd and intense but never seemed violent.