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No, that's melodramatic. There have been lots of people.
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I watched a documentry on David Bowie some years ago. Near the end of it, they had an interveiw with Bowie who was asked if when he worked on a new song, did he create it trying to please himself or to please the public taste.
As I remember, the answer was 'Always to please myself....Because I know I'm really not that unique of a person and somewhere out there,are people who are feeling the same things I feel.'
As I remember, the answer was 'Always to please myself....Because I know I'm really not that unique of a person and somewhere out there,are people who are feeling the same things I feel.'
Oh yeah. I find myself dealing with first world problems now and then, and realize the uniqueness of the situation would prevent me from getting valuable input/advice/guidance from others pertinent to the details.
At that point, I remove the fine details, and break it down to what exactly are the principles/morals/issues/etc I am wrestling with.
I find that those details apply to about everyone. From there, I go about finding someone I trust to provide some input.
-Mike
At that point, I remove the fine details, and break it down to what exactly are the principles/morals/issues/etc I am wrestling with.
I find that those details apply to about everyone. From there, I go about finding someone I trust to provide some input.
-Mike
I thought I was unique in having been entrusted with Hitler's cryogenically preserved head for safekeeping. Then I found out the head had been replicated as well as frozen.
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There ya go! That's why I started this thread
. Thanks.And @Aberdumbie, yes, I'm still here.
And for those that still don't get what's going on here...
I don't believe myself to be any more unique than anyone else. We all have our own separate bag of talents, weaknesses, thoughts, emotions, experience, etc. What's unique is the situation I'm in, which is something I'd very much like to work my way through. Part of my toolbox for getting to the other side of things is talking them out with people I trust. In this situation that's turning out to certainly not be talkbass, though if I were to find anyone that's ever been in this place - it would actually be here. Which kinda sucks, and is the reason I said in the OP that I would consider PMing the details to some. Had I posted the details in my first post, as we say here in Brooklyn, fuggetaboutit!!!! This thread would 20 pages long. With some helpful stuff, but mostly judgements.
Oh hey, I'll be in NYC with the wife (staying at the Holiday Inn on Nassau in Manhattan) from April 29th to May 5th. My third visit to NYC. What's your 'go to' for pizza in Brooklyn?
-Mike
For a good part of my younger years, I believed myself to be incredibly unique. In many ways we all are, but I'm talking the REAL unique, unhealthy kind of I don't fit in anywhere. I've gotten past that for the most part, and my life has been much happier. I get along much better in the world now
I presently have a situation that's been going on for a while, gnawing at me, that I feel completely alone with. And I'm stuck as I have no solution other than to just sit with it and wait for it to play (or not) play out. I honestly feel it's something so out of the ordinary than possibly nobody on earth has ever experienced it before (or at least nobody within my reach). I'd love to post details, but truth be told... I don't think anybody that didn't know me personally would even believe me.
Apologies for being so cryptic, and depending on the responses I may wind up PMing some people specifics, as I really would like to have other people's take, input, inspiration, whatever. The situation is a "luxury problem" as some put these things. Nothing life threatening, or even harmful... but it IS causing me a lot of uncomfortability right now.
Anyhow, anyone ever have something like this, that they felt really alone in the world with? Thought this could be an interesting, fun topic, and possibly helpful to me and others.
Rickenbacker addiction? Don't worry...you are by no means alone.....
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In Brooklyn, it's hands down this place, but ya gotta get the squares L&B Spumoni Gardens
In NYC, I now love 2 Brothers $1 a slice pizza on the corner of 38th and 8th. I rehearse with one of the bands I'm in across the street, and always get a parking spot right in front at 7pm (when parking becomes legal). I can't pass up grabbing a couple of slices. It's $2 for the specialty slices. In other places they charge up to $7 for the same stuff.
Joe your post is much to vague for anyone here to have any idea what your problem is, get to the point, or why waste peoples time reading your massive whine fest. I can guarantee your problem is not wholly unique to the billions of inhabitants of planet earth, have you considered the possibility that its just life ? happens to everyone..................really
I was walking home from the bus stop in 1966 (sixth grade) and it suddenly dawned on me that I am the only actual person alive, and I am only consciousness. This reality I occupy and everyone and everything in it is an illusion created solely for me to perceive it to be a real world. Even the body I occupy. So yeah, I have.
I've been very successful going forward with that paradigm. Fortunately for all of you, though I know you don't really exist, I'm benign.
I've been very successful going forward with that paradigm. Fortunately for all of you, though I know you don't really exist, I'm benign.
I'd have it removed.For a good part of my younger years, I believed myself to be incredibly unique. In many ways we all are, but I'm talking the REAL unique, unhealthy kind of I don't fit in anywhere. I've gotten past that for the most part, and my life has been much happier. I get along much better in the world now
I presently have a situation that's been going on for a while, gnawing at me, that I feel completely alone with. And I'm stuck as I have no solution other than to just sit with it and wait for it to play (or not) play out. I honestly feel it's something so out of the ordinary than possibly nobody on earth has ever experienced it before (or at least nobody within my reach). I'd love to post details, but truth be told... I don't think anybody that didn't know me personally would even believe me.
Apologies for being so cryptic, and depending on the responses I may wind up PMing some people specifics, as I really would like to have other people's take, input, inspiration, whatever. The situation is a "luxury problem" as some put these things. Nothing life threatening, or even harmful... but it IS causing me a lot of uncomfortability right now.
Anyhow, anyone ever have something like this, that they felt really alone in the world with? Thought this could be an interesting, fun topic, and possibly helpful to me and others.