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Q: Feelings, Not Worth It
asked by: Antari2012 on May 27th, 2007
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I've spent the last 10 years trying to have friends, but they always get pushed away by myself, or circumstance. I could write in detail, but I'm too tired. Instead I'll say that I'm tired of feeling and being attached. I'm so tired of being let down or losing things I love. There's no way out of this unbearable emptiness other than to lose the capability to feel. It's too bad that I can't simply eliminate the bad, but that seems impossible, as caring always leads to vulnerability.

I only wanted a friend who wouldn't leave. But how can I have that, when I become paranoid to a nearly unbearable level about every little thing?

I'm so tired, tired like an elderly man, though I am only 19. Thinking of old age, with this, is a nightmare. How tired will I be then?

I can't feel happiness if I let myself feel, so I'll just stop feeling at all.
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Philo
replied on May 29th, 2007
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my friends always leave too, but over time, over many years you develop one or two that will stay. i have one. you need patience.
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Antari2012
replied on May 31st, 2007
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I thought I had friends like that. After a friendship of 7 years, my best friend got tired of me and left. I've been patient until now, now I just realize that with every attachment, a hook is placed in my flesh, and when I lose that person or thing, it is ripped out. It's time to stop getting attached before I bleed to death, in other words, end it.
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Philo
replied on June 1st, 2007
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I feel your pain. Unfortunately a vast majority of friendships come and go, even the really good ones. Maybe your attachments and expectations are too great and you need to be more mindful of other people's reality, which is not like ours.
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Shady41
replied on June 14th, 2007
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It sounds to me like you need to seek treatment for clinical depression. Doing so will enable you to take things that are just a part of the inequities of life less seriously, put them into a better perspective, and become dependent emotionally solely upon YOURSELF. Once you get to that point, if "friends" abandon you or whatever, it will matter little to you. Good luck.
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