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- From: thespian@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Stephanie M. Clarkson)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: How depressing!
- Message-ID: <9LVyXB1w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 23:28:31 EST
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- pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) writes:
-
- ((why would a))
-
- > strong, happy individual such as yourself select alt.angst?
-
- hmmm...just because a person is strong, or because they're happy,
- doesn't/shouldn't mean that their life is not angstful...even so, during
- my non-angstful periods, I like to read alt.angst in the hopes that
- *maybe* I've lived through the experience and can offer advice...I've
- found that when the advice is good, or is even just a shoulder to cry on,
- angsters are receptive to it. Admittedly, alot of people are here to
- just whine, but I'd say my closest net.friends came out of alt.angst...
-
- Another reason could be akin to this: I am happy right now, for the
- first time in my life, I am really happy, instead of just sort of
- positive-noncommittal. Last weekend I had to live with one of those
- people you meet and want to rip thier throats out for four days, I had
- essentially a first date (never schedule a first date for four days. By
- date, I mean scheduled thing...we'd done stuff together before, just
- never planned it), I broke my toe, and had my living space turn into
- psychodrama central because I was tired and in pain and made a bad
- judgement call. On returning home, I found my cats had not been fed for
- two days by their 'sitter, and on Wednesday my ex-SO come-roommate tried
- to kill himself and attacked me in the middle of the attempt, resulting
- in me having him taken away by a cop (one of seven) on breach of peace
- charges. My mother refused to let me stay here, so the next night I was
- at a friend's place, the night after that at my parent's place...when I
- escaped my parents place on Saturday for half-an-hour, my mother
- virtually followed me by PHONING me to nag...when I returned my brother
- did his best to make sure that I knew it really wasn't my home anymore,
- in case I had delusions of staying, and by Sunday I was sick of it. Risk
- or not I moved back to the apartment. I was late for my rehearsal on
- Sunday, during which I twisted the leg that the broken toe is at the end
- of, and finally got to go home to my apartment and sleep last night.
- Today I hid from the world, nursing strained muscles and broken bones,
- but I still had to go to rehearsal, and we run next week.
-
- Despite all of this, I am, like I said, very happy, because I've finally
- found a person who is not only my equal in mind, but has m sense of
- humour, and echoes my hopes and dreams. Of course, in Keeping with my
- life, he lives 500 miles away, but I can live with that, because I've
- really fallen in love. (sounds sappy, I KNOW, but I never did quite
- realize how deep love could go when it decides to smack you upside the
- head instead of using the front door and giving you decent warning.)
-
- So, because this is my life, and I know the tune by now, I know that he
- won't move here because he knows none of my friends, and I won't move
- there, because my specialty is Canadian Law, and there's darned few of
- them needed in the states, and we'll either drift apart or be miserable
- and in great debt to Bell and Sprint, but right now, fool that I am,
- accepting all this, I am happy.
-
- I don't think happiness and angstfulness contradict...It's all a matter
- of the balances...
-
- Stephanie...
-
- Stephanie...
-
- Stephanie M. Clarkson : thespian@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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- 99 pieces of mail in my box, 99 pieces of mail -
- Can't answer each piece, and so I delete,
- To 98 pieces of mail in my box...
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- ~~~~~~~~~ please do not send me files over 30k...fnord. ~~~~~~~~~
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