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Re: Social media difficulty

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Burning ghost wrote:It sounds to me like you are confused between knowing whether you want to interact with other people or whether you should/need to interact more.

Maybe you should think of it as a challenge and actively force yourself to socialise more? After a set period make a self analysis of what knowledge you've gained about yourself and others in this challenge and decide from there whether or nor to continue.

Everyone feels lonely. Many people cover this up and often those that seem social are the most lonely people there are because they avoid addressing "alone" time. In this respect you have the upper (psychological) hand over yourself! Haha.

Failing all that just do more activities and by happenstance you'll come into theborbit of others and create relationships. I don't know your interests and there are probably things you've never done you might like ... just explore and live.

I am actually thinking about cycling across asia for the sheer hell of it! Haha
:) Thanks.
by the way, by "cycling" do you mean by bike or by motocycles? I don't know whether anyone can clycling Asia by either methods, that 's a little bit impossible, maybe couchsurfing is a better solution?

-- Updated December 2nd, 2016, 11:00 pm to add the following --
Burning ghost wrote:It sounds to me like you are confused between knowing whether you want to interact with other people or whether you should/need to interact more.

Maybe you should think of it as a challenge and actively force yourself to socialise more? After a set period make a self analysis of what knowledge you've gained about yourself and others in this challenge and decide from there whether or nor to continue.
I 'm using social media software more and I 'm getting use to it, it did offer me lots of convenience, and I 'm paticipating more social activities like church gethering and book sharing event in town so I can talk to more people and polish my social skills
Burning ghost wrote:Everyone feels lonely. Many people cover this up and often those that seem social are the most lonely people there are because they avoid addressing "alone" time.

But social people seems to have much less lonely time, I guess.
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Re: Social media difficulty

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Everyone gets lonely. Part of being human. Some people need others company more than others too.

It is certainly not impossible to cycle across asia. What makes you think it would be??
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Re: Social media difficulty

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I am a virtual loner who lives alone with no family or friends. Although this does not bother me since I actually function better
the more psychological space I have. My pastimes are activities which are solitary by nature. Such as reading and writing and walking. I do use the internet to engage with others. But that is more for the purpose of productive discourse than for making friends. I am very content to be a loner as it is my natural disposition. And so consequently have no problem in accepting this
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN
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Re: Social media difficulty

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This does make me wonder about possible problems that communicating at a distance can have.

I do like people, but I am often too passionate (in my eyes at least) to engage with groups of people. I am happy to sit and listen than to participate. I have noticed this seems to make somw people a little uncomfortable, or maybe even suspicious? No matter what it is certainly an interesting interaction that I think makes life richer.

No human is an island! Yet quite ironically, we are all islands ina community of islands. Being an island is not a bad thing unless you choice to either murder anyone trying to come ashore or are fearful of stepping beyond your own comfortable coastline.

Saying all that I could happily live alone in a jungle for months or even years. One day I plan to put that to the test :)
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